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[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...
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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...
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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...
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