The Grip of History and the Scope for Novelty: Some Results and Open Questions on Path Dependence in Economic Processes

Castaldi, Carolina; Dosi, Giovanni

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“…However, path dissolution may also occur because of an insidious change in organizational demography or the "incomplete" socialization of new organizational members (Tolbert, 1988). In this vein, Castaldi and Dosi (2006) refer to the possibility of coincidental delocking in terms of a by-product of other organizational decisions. A nice illustration of such coincidental path dissolution at an organizational level is provided by the Intel case and its moves in the memory business (Burgelman, 1994(Burgelman, , 2002Burgelman & Grove, 1996).…”

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“…The QWERTY case and similar case studies from technology diffusion, economic history, and evolutionary economics (e.g., Antonelli, 1999;Callon, 1992;Castaldi & Dosi, 2006;Dosi, 1982;Hughes, 1987) offer intriguing evidence of similar persistence in national and global contexts. Arthur (1989Arthur ( , 1994 was the first to model a formal theory of path dependence and to expose increasing returns as the major process driver.…”

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Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box.

Sydow¹,

Schreyögg²,

Koch³

2009

Academy of Management Review

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To enable a better understanding of the underlying logic of path dependence, we set forth a theoretical framework explaining how organizations become path dependent. At its core are the dynamics of self-reinforcing mechanisms, which are likely to lead an organization into a lock-in. By drawing on studies of technological paths, we conceptualize the emergent process of path dependence along three distinct stages. We also use the model to explore breakouts from organizational path dependence and discuss implications for managing and researching organizational paths.

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Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box.

Sydow¹,

Schreyögg²,

Koch³

2009

Academy of Management Review

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969

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“…However, typically their overall "fitness" (say, their revealed competitiveness) depends upon multiple interrelated traits: in such cases, selection occurs on a fitness landscape with multiple local maxima and with adaptation starting with (random) initial conditions. This holds under NK landscapes (Levinthal, 1997;Siggelkow, 2003, Castaldi andDosi, 2006) and plausibly even more so in the environments we try to represent here. Indeed, organizations typically compete on such complex landscapes and interrelated technological and behavioral traits are responsible for path dependent reproduction of organizational arrangements (Marengo, 1996, Levinthal, 2000, Siggelkow and Levinthal, 2005.…”

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A model of cognitive and operational memory of organizations in changing worlds

Dosi¹,

Marengo²,

Paraskevopoulou

et al. 2017

Cambridge Journal of Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis work analyzes and models the nature and dynamics of organizational memory, as such an essential ingredient of organizational capabilities. There are two sides to it, namely a cognitive side, involving the beliefs and interpretative frameworks by which the organization categorizes the states of the world and its own internal states, and an operational one, including routines and procedures that store the knowledge of how to do things. We formalize both types of memory by means of evolving systems of condition-action rules and investigate their performance in different environments characterized by varying degrees of complexity and non-stationarity. Broadly speaking, in simple and stable environments memory does not matter, provided it satisfies some minimal requirements. In more complex and gradually changing ones more memory is better. However there is some critical level of environmental instability above which forgetfulness is evolutionary superior from the point of view of long term performance. Moreover, above some (modest) complexity threshold stable and robust cognitive categorizations and routinized behavior emerge.

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“…Sobre esse ponto, dentro de uma literatura que está crescendo, veja-se os argumentos complementares de Atkinson & Stiglitz (1969), David (1988), Arthur (1994), Dosi et al (1990), Krugman (1996), Antonelli (1995), Cimoli (1988), Castaldi & Dosi (2006).…”

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Instituições e Políticas Moldando o Desenvolvimento Industrial: uma nota introdutória

Cimoli¹,

Dosi²,

Nelson

et al. 2009

Rev. Bras. Inov.

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R E S U M O Neste trabalho, elaborado como introdução às contribuições da força-tarefa sobre Políticas Industriais e Desenvolvimento, Iniciativa para o Diálogo sobre Políticas (Columbia University, Nova York), discutimos o papel das instituições e políticas no processo de desenvolvimento. Iniciamos argumentando sobre o quanto a terminologia das "falhas de mercado" pode ser enganosa para avaliar a necessidade de políticas públicas por fazer essa avaliação com base num padrão de medida que é raramente observado em qualquer mercado. Muito mais próximos da evidência empírica, nós argumentamos que mesmo quando o mercado prevalece como forma de governança de interações econômicas, estas se encontram entranhadas numa rica Revista Brasileira de Inovação, Rio de Janeiro (RJ), 6 (1), p.55-85, janeiro/junho 2007 55 1 Preparado para a Força-Tarefa sobre "Políticas Industriais e Desenvolvimento", no âmbito da Iniciativa para o Diálogo sobre Políticas (IPD -Initiative for Policy Dialogue), dirigida por Joseph Stiglitz na Columbia University, Nova York. Submetido à RBI para publicação exclusivamente em português. A versão original, em inglês, será publicada em livro a ser editado pela Oxford University Press.N.E. A tradução deste artigo é da autoria do Professor José Emílio Maiorino, da Editora UNICAMP; a revisão técnica do texto é do editor associado, Professor Tamás Szmrecsányi (DPCT-IG/UNICAMP). O texto final foi revisto pelo Editor. 56Mario Cimoli, Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson, Joseph Stiglitz ABSTRACT In this work, meant as an introduction to the contributions of the task force on Industrial Policies and Development, Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, New York, we discuss the role of institutions and policies in the process of development. We begin by arguing how misleading the "market failure" language can be in order to assess the necessity of public policies in that it evaluates it against a yardstick that is hardly met by any observed market set-up. Much nearer to the empirical evidence we argue that even when one encounters a prevailing market form of governance of economic interactions, the latter are embedded in a rich thread of non-market institutions. This applies in general and is particularly so with respect to the production and use of information and technological knowledge. In this work we build on the fundamental institutional embeddedness of such processes of malha de instituições não-mercado. Isto se aplica de modo geral e particularmente à produção e uso de informação e conhecimento tecnológico. Neste trabalho nos baseamos nesse entranhamento institucional fundamental de processos de aprendizado tecnológico, tanto em países desenvolvidos quanto em países que buscam alcançar a fronteira tecnológica (catching-up), e tentamos identificar alguns ingredientes robustos de políticas que têm historicamente acompanhado a co-evolução de capacitações tecnológicas, formas de organização das empresas, e mecanismos de incentivos. Todas as experiências bem-sucedidas de catching-up e, às vezes, ...

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The Grip of History and the Scope for Novelty: Some Results and Open Questions on Path Dependence in Economic Processes

Cited by 64 publications

References 76 publications

Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box.

Organizational Path Dependence: Opening the Black Box.

A model of cognitive and operational memory of organizations in changing worlds

Instituições e Políticas Moldando o Desenvolvimento Industrial: uma nota introdutória

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