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Path Dependence in Ports: The Persistence of Cooperative Forms
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The concept of path dependence is used to compare the evolution of the organizational forms of two groups of transportation and warehousing firms, the Dutch vemen and the Antwerp naties, that operated in seaports between c.1500 and 1900 and beyond. Their adoption of cooperative forms reflected the corporative guild creed that prevailed in early modern European cities. After 1815, when their businesses were no longer regulated by local governments, the vemen and naties remained locked into the...
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Path Dependence and Creation.(Book Review)
Administrative Science Quarterly
; Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe, eds. Mahwah, NJ' LEA, 2001. 399 pp. $55.00. Path Dependence and Creation is a thematic volume intended to remind us that even when path dependence seems to lock human or organizational actors into suboptimal technologies, practices, or structures, these paths are not
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Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas: Past and Present
Eastern Economic Journal
; Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas: Past and Present. Edited by Pierre Garrouste and Stavros Ioannides. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001. pp. 256. $90.00. ISBN 1840640812. Mainstream economics is timeless, analyzing economic outcomes as end states that are reached independently of the
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Guinnane, Timothy W., William A. Sundstrom, and Warren C. Whatley, eds. History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books
; Guinnane, Timothy W., William A. Sundstrom, and Warren C. Whatley, eds. History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press 528 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-8047-4398-3 Publication Date: July 2003 The work of Paul David, whom this
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Path Dependence and Knowledge Development in the Internationalization Process.(Brief Article)
Management International Review
; Abstract * This paper is based on the Uppsala internationalization process model, which claims that the behaviour of the international firm is path or history dependent. This is so because the internationalization process of firms is based on the stock of their firm-specific tacit or experiential
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Increasing Returns, Path Dependence, and the Study of Politics.
American Political Science Review
; It is increasingly common for social scientists to describe political processes as path dependent. The concept, however, is often employed without careful elaboration. This article conceptualizes path dependence as a social process grounded in a dynamic of increasing returns. Reviewing recent
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