[Introduction ...] The paper is organized as follows: First, we develop a frame of reference based on a brief overview of the concepts of risk and uncertainty and organizational responses. The second part presents our empirical investigation. We briefly report on the results of our exploratory...

Vorliegender Aufsatz beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie sich organisationale Kompetenz entwickelt oder weshalb sie sich nicht entwickeln kann.

Organisationale Kompetenz ist zu einem der aktuellsten Themen der modernen Betriebswirtschaftslehre geworden.Das Besondere an der neuen Diskussion ist, dass man das Kompetenzkonstrukt auf soziale Systeme übertragen hat und nunmehr von der Kompetenz einer ganzen Organisation spricht.(...)

This discussion paper reports and reflects on the reception of our article "Organizational path dependence: Opening the black box", which was published in 2009 in the Academy of Management Review and granted the AMR Decade Award in 2019. While we were invited by the editor of the journal to...

Theories of path dependence and incumbent inertia assume that self-reinforcing mechanisms lead to highly persistent and eventually inefficient institutional solutions. The resulting lock-in is likely to threaten the viability of an organization. While path dependence theory was initially...

The recent discussion in the field of strategic management broadly favors the idea of dynamic capabilities in order to overcome potential rigidities of organizational capability building. The major question addressed in this paper is whether capabilities can actually be conceived as being in...

In this article we attempt to provide some reorientation for theuse of the concept of knowledge within management studies. The point ofdeparture is the striking discrepancy between the great importance nowadaysattributed to knowledge (knowledge economy, knowledge resources,knowledge societies,...