Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/89535 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2011/12
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
The note on which an entry for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management will draw offers a beginner's guide to path dependency in technologies and organizations. We address the very meaning of the concept and its centrality in various aspects of economic analysis. We outline the various levels of the ecomic system in which it is observable, its sources, concequences and different formal representations of path dependent processes.
Subjects: 
path dependence
lock-in
dynamic increasing returns
organizational inertia
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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