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...

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...

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...

In ihrem zum Standardwerk avancierten und bereits mehrfach übersetzten Lehr- und Lernbuch geben die Autoren einen umfassenden und gut verständlichen Überblick über das komplexe Gebiet des Managements. Die Neuauflage ist in allen Kapiteln grundlegend überarbeitet und integriert eine Reihe...