Introduction / by Ralph Stacey -- Local and global processes in organizational life / by Ralph Stacey -- The local experience of a global diversity initiative in a multinational pharmaceutical company / by David Scanlon -- The emergence of global stability in local interaction in a consulting...

"The theory of path dependence continues to attract great interest in a range of disciplines. An increasing number of scholars have started to explicitly use this theory for studying organizational inertia and institutional rigidities. This volume presents a collection of papers from various...