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Sustainability threat
- Spillovers
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- Reconfiguring-roles-and-relationships
- Reshaping organizational forms
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Description of Study
Many scholars agree that “history matters” for organizations, but understanding why and how it matters proves to be a big undertaking. This theoretic paper zooms in on a specific way through which the past influences present-day organizations: how history forms patterns of persistence within organizations. We outline three key theories on history and persistence in organizations: path dependence, escalation of commitment, and imprinting. We synthesize the literature and review the theories on the agency of actors involved, the microfoundations, historical assumptions, and the role of institutions.
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How does history play a role in the persistence of organizational structures and practices?
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path dependence theory, escalation of commitment, imprinting theory, cohort effects, structural inertie
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Bringing the past back in –history and persistence in organizations and institutions
This study (a revised version) will be published in the Handbook of Historical Sociology
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