The missing link between the theory and empirics of path dependence: Conceptual clarification, testability issue, and methodological implications

By Jean-Philippe Vergne, Rodolphe Durand. 2010

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CSR and financial performance: complementarity between environmental, social and business behaviours (2014, background): “We contribute to this literature on path dependence (see Vergne and Durand, 2010) by showing empirically that the outcome of path-dependent capability development is more likely to be positive for the firm investing in complementary CSR activities.”
Path Dependence or Path Creation (2010, background): “Of particular interest is the notion of path dependence as evidenced in Vergne and Durand’s Point–Counterpoint in this journal (Vergne and Durand, 2010) and also a recent article in the Academy of Management Review (Sydow et al., 2009).”
The Path of Most Persistence: An Evolutionary Perspective on Path Dependence and Dynamic Capabilities (2011, methodology): “We synthesize past research and define path dependence as a property of a stochastic process triggered by contingent events and subject to self-reinforcement over time, which tightens actors’ choice sets (Vergne & Durand, 2010).”
“What’s Past Is Prologue” (2015, background): “Interestingly, this also partly accounts for the continued debate as to what constitutes the unique domain of imprinting as compared to path dependence and other history-dependent temporal processes (for detailed comparisons, see Sydow, Schreyögg, & Koch, 2009; and Vergne & Durand, 2010).”
ENTREPRENEURIAL INCEPTION: THE ROLE OF IMPRINTING IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTION (SUMMARY) (2013, background): “Thus, for an imprint to persist among individuals, that imprint must be relatively strong (Marquis, 2003; Vergne and Durand, 2010).”
How Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement Strategy Moderates the CSR–Financial Performance Relationship (2012, unknown): “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…”
Path Dependence and New Technological Path Creation in the Danish Wind Power Industry (2012, methodology): “The standard economic model of path dependence provided by David (1985, 1986), Arthur (1989, 1994) and Vergne and Durand (2010) is designed to show how contingency and self-reinforcing process can lead to the outcome of stability and lock-in of (inefficient) technologies.”
Theorizing path dependence: a review of positive feedback mechanisms in technology markets, regional clusters, and organizations (2012, unknown): “Crouch and Farrell, 2004; Boas, 2007), or the inefficiency of paths (Vergne and Durand, 2010).”