Inscribed strategies: Exploring the organizational nature of strategic lock-in

J Koch - Organization Studies, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
An organization's ability to act strategically under conditions of path dependence relies not
only on the particular form of a strategic path but also on how this path is inscribed in an …

Why are some family firms not innovative?: Innovation Barriers and Path Dependence in Family Firms

D Lorenzo, P Núñez-Cacho, N Akhter… - Scandinavian Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although scholars have recognized the importance of innovation in family firms, the literature
on family firm innovation tends to generally depict family firms as either 'good'or 'bad'for …

Adaptive culture and product/service innovation outcomes

AJ Verdu-Jover, L Alos-Simo… - European Management …, 2018 - Elsevier
Organizational culture has been used and defined extensively as a relatively stable,
enduring set of values, beliefs, assumptions, and symbols shared in the organization. Based …

Good night, and good luck: Perspectives on luck in management scholarship

C Liu, M De Rond - The Academy of Management Annals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
It is not insignificant that seminal contributions to management scholarship have highlighted
luck as an alternative explanation for performance differences between individuals and …

Strategic persistence in family business

HC Fang, JJ Chrisman, DT Holt - … Theory and Practice, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Using a behavioral theory framework, we argue that family firms are more persistent (less
likely to engage in the strategic renewal form of corporate entrepreneurship) in their strategic …

Realizing dynamic capabilities and organizational knowledge in effective innovations: the capabilities typological map

M Cordeiro, F Puig, L Ruiz-Fernández - Journal of Knowledge …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to shed light on the mechanisms that connect dynamic capabilities
and organizational knowledge in the innovative process to offer a new theoretical and …

CEO regulatory focus as the microfoundation of organizational ambidexterity: A configurational approach

S Huang, M Battisti, D Pickernell - Journal of Business Research, 2021 - Elsevier
This study contributes to research on how microfoundations, in the form of CEO
characteristics, influence ambidexterity (the capability to engage simultaneously in both …

Historical consciousness and bounded imagination: How history inspires and shapes innovation in long-lived firms

I Sasaki, D Ravasi - Academy of Management Discoveries, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Unexpected observations from a study of ultra-centenary Japanese firms suggest that
organizational longevity might affect how managers relate to past, present, and future, and …

Is one path enough? Multiple paths and path interaction as an extension of path dependency theory

A Bergek, K Onufrey - Industrial and Corporate Change, 2014 - academic.oup.com
To explain the development of multi-technology companies and industries where several
alternative technologies co-exist and interact over long periods, this article suggests an …

Climate geoengineering: issues of path‐dependence and socio‐technical lock‐in

RC Cairns - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As academic and policy interest in climate geoengineering grows, the potential irreversibility
of technological developments in this domain has been raised as a pressing concern. The …