How can the argument that organisations evolve according to environmental pressures be reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book is the first of its kind to answer this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution. Organization...

How can the argument that organizations evolve according to environmental pressures be reconciled with evidence of strategic management? Rodolphe Durand addresses this theoretical puzzle & engages readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution

This paper extends the dynamic capability view and research on organizational path dependence by arguing that path dependence can be a property of capabilities when a contingently-triggered capability path is subject to self-reinforcement (i.e. a set of positive and negative mechanisms that...