Project networks have been identified as dynamic, yet relatively stable organizational forms in project-based creative industries. They materialize in longer-term actor relationships which are actualized by and institutionalized through particular projects. This article examines how project...

An important new stream of thought stressing the importance of organizational fluidity has emerged in recent years. It represents a reaction to the increasing complexity and environmental turbulence that organizations have to master. The solutions proposed are highly flexible and fluid...

The quest to consider the historical side of managerial and organizational action has become increasingly accepted. An open question is still how this can be achieved systematically. In this paper we refer to the theory of path dependence as an interesting candidate to fill this gap. The problem...

International Framework Agreements (IFAs) represent a still small but growing and particularly interesting contribution to the global regulation of employment relations. IFAs enable global union federations (GUFs) to become actively involved in co-designing employment relations within...

Although an increasing number of studies of technological, institutional and organizational change refer to the concepts of path dependence and path creation, few attempts have been made to consider these concepts explicitly in their methodological accounts. This paper addresses this gap and...

In this paper, we ask how organizational restructuring towards a network form of service delivery at airports challenges the established form of employment relations in Germany, i.e. labour-management collaboration. Building on a theoretical discussion of the marketization hypothesis, we develop...

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...