Path dependence in technologies and organizations: a concise guide

The note on which an entry for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management will draw offers a beginner's guide to path dependency in technologies and organizations. We address the very meaning of the concept and its centrality in various aspects of economic analysis. We outline the various levels of the ecomic system in which it is observable, its sources, concequences and different formal representations of path dependent processes.

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Year of publication:	2011-05-19
Authors:	Castaldi, Carolina ; Dosi, Giovanni ; Paraskevopoulou, Evita
Institutions:	Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
Subject:	Path dependence \| lock-in \| dynamic increasing returns \| organizational inertias

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	LEM Papers Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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