Self-Reinforcing Processes in and among Organizations

1. Self-Reinforcing Processes in Organizations, Networks, and Fields — An Introduction
Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg

Part I. Path Dependence by Self-Reinforcing Processes

2. Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms in Organizational Fields: The Development of an Innovation Path in the Car Industry
Uli Meyer

3. How Organizations Become Enduring: Disentangling the Organizational Identity Paradox
Stefan Kirchner

4. A Tale of Two Cities in Regional Entrepreneurial Policymaking: A Comparative Study of Suzhou and Wuxi from a Path-Dependence Perspective
Yipeng Liu, Xuanwei Cao, Yijun Xing

Part II. Explaining and Monitoring Self-Reinforcing Processes

5. Regimes and Reflexivity: Exploring Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms Fostering and Impeding Innovation Capability
Frank Schirmer, Michael Tasto, Daniel Knödler

6. Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms and Organizational Decision Making: The Case of Project Prioritization in a Financial Institution
Arisa Shollo, Ioanna Constantiou

7. Service Innovation Capabilities Dynamization in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations: Evidence from Research and Technology Organizations
Lidia Gryszkiewicz, Eleni Giannopoulou, Pierre-Jean Barlatier

8. Anomie-Driven Dynamics of Deviance
Gabriele Faßauer

9. Imprints, Self-Reinforcement and Active Reinforcement: The Case of Corporate Value Statements
Anna Blombäck, Olof Brunninge, Anders Melander

Part III. Research Perspectives and Conclusion

10. Locking in and Unlocking — Adding to Path Dependence
Mona Ericson, Rolf A. Lundin

11. Locked in the Iron Cage? When Institutionalization Is (not) a Path-Dependent Process
Olivier Berthod, Jörg Sydow

12. Specifying the Role of Events in Path Dependence
Hugo Driel

13. Self-Reinforcing Processes — An Assessment
Huseyin Leblebici

Keywords: Business and Management, Management, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Economics, general