Path Dependence or Path Creation

By Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy, P. Karnøe. 2010

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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Path Dependence and New Technological Path Creation in the Danish Wind Power Industry (2012, background): “In their sociological alternative to traditional economic path dependence theory, Garud and Karnøe (2001) and Garud et al. (2010) argue that path dependence is a process that is influenced by history but that is also made out of that history as a result of the interactions between embedded agents…”
Business Models for Sustainable Technologies: Exploring Business Model Evolution in the Case of Electric Vehicles (2014, background): “the dominant business model logic, complementary assets, and contingent events (see Table 1) – seemed to work in close alignment, creating a self-reinforcing mechanism (Garud et al., 2010; Sydow et al., 2009; Vergne and Durand, 2010).”
The impact of multi-layer governance on bank risk disclosure in emerging markets: the case of Middle East and North Africa (2019, background): “Organisations are both supported and constrained by their external environments (Garud, Kumaraswamy, & Karnøe, 2010).”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “Because systematized innovation itself can be consistent with path dependency such that some novelty is required to reproduce the structure and systems of the status quo (Schumpeter, 1942), entrepreneurial agency must involve more novelty than incremental innovation does (Garud et al., 2010), but no”
Growing on Steroids: Rapidly Scaling the User Base of Digital Ventures Through Digital Innovation (2017, background): “The starting-point of such speed is winner-take-it-all perceptions (Eisenmann et al. 2006; Schilling 2002) materialized in an entrepreneurial spirit and attentiveness to slow-downs in growth rate among reflective actors actively seeking to keep the momentum going (cf. Garud et al. 2010).”
Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: Individuals, Processes, and Structure (2012, background): “Alternatively, a microfoundation might only affect the development, operation, maintenance, and/or change of a routine or capability but not necessarily contribute to its creation (Garud et al., 2010; Vergne and Durand, 2010).”
Four dangers in innovation policy studies – and how to avoid them (2016, background): “Garud, Kumaraswamy, and Karnøe (2010) argue that understanding agency requires a ‘narrative approach’ that follows the actors and studies processes in real time, one which avoids the treatment of a sequence of events as inevitable.”
The missing link between the theory and empirics of path dependence: Conceptual clarification, testability issue, and methodological implications (2010, background): “While this definition enriches the institutional perspective on entrepreneurship (e.g. Garud, 2008), it also broadens the list of possible outcomes of path dependence to encompass innovation in addition to persistence (see also Garud et al., 2010; Porac et al., 2001).”
How Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement Strategy Moderates the CSR–Financial Performance Relationship (2012, positive): “Path dependence theory (Garud et al., 2010; Sydow et al., 2009; Vergne and Durand, 2010), a perspective rooted in absorptive capacity, highlights the concept that ‘history matters’ in how well a company can absorb and retain new knowledge; through accumulating similar knowledge, building…”