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...

How do collectives of organizations create a new technological solution or extend an already existing technological path in networked organizational fields? This paper contributes, first, to a general understanding of the recursive interplay between technology development and the processes of...

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...