Path Dependence and the Roots of Interorganizational Relationship Challenges

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Sedgwick ◽  
Laura S Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Development ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Governance Challenges ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Barriers To Collaboration ◽  
Path Dependence Theory ◽  
Theoretical Developments

Abstract Governance today often requires concerted action by multiple organizations operating within and across sectors. Although scholars fruitfully have assayed many factors that facilitate or constrain interorganizational collaboration, the extant literature largely ignores the ways in which historical patterns of policy and organizational development may figure in present-day obstacles to collaboration. This is unfortunate, for such obstacles may result from path dependence and, thus, be particularly ingrained and resistant to change. In this article, we detail recent advances in the path dependency theory, then illustrate our argument with a case study of path-dependent barriers to collaboration between two public programs pressed to work together after decades of deliberately separate operation. The case confirms the utility of new theoretical developments, yet also suggests necessary clarifications and refinements. Though aspects of path dependence theory should be reexamined, we argue that it is ripe for use by scholars of public management concerned with barriers to collaboration and other contemporary governance challenges.

Field burning practices in a southern region of Brazil

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-447
Author(s):  
Roberto Birch Gonçalves ◽  
Eric Charles Henri Dorion ◽  
Cristine Hermann Nodari ◽  
Fernanda Lazzari ◽  
Pelayo Munhoz Olea
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Path Dependent Process ◽  
Field Burning

Purpose – The practice of field burning has been used for many years in the south regions of Brazil as an ideal way to maintain pastures. The purpose of this paper is to understand if such activity is logically explicable or if it is the result of a cultural reality, being “prisoner” of this technique because of path dependence, within the paradigm of the path dependence theory. Design/methodology/approach – This present research is exploratory. The use of cases study was the most appropriate technique to explore the field burning practices and their impact in this specific region of Brazil, while describing its context, for which limits are not clearly defined. Thus, this research carries out a multi-case study that provides a greater perception than a single case and has an identical methodological structure. Findings – This paper analyzed the reasons why the producers insist with the procedure and identified these reasons are not merely economical. The study demonstrates a clear path dependent process and it became obvious that once the technique is part of the family use history, it anchors a strong conviction that field burning is actually the best technique to be used for land maintenance. Research limitations/implications – This work suggests a need for other specific researches to substantially complement field burning practices to other phenomenon. Practical implications – The fact that alternative techniques are rejected, giving priority to field burning, it may suggest that other situations and practices may be tied to inadequate or less profitable technologies as well (milk, confined raising, pasturing). The study raises the question on the validity of such practice as a paradigm of reason and pragmatism, or as a “Platoons Cavern” in which they are “trapped” in their decision process developed over time. Originality/value – Presence and implications of environmental laws, which tend to be observed by the producers much more because they fear punishment than because they really understand the benefits of its application; showing the government’s failure in teaching and informing the producers about environmental laws.

scholarly journals Path Dependence in Settlement Processes: Explaining Settlement in Northern Ireland

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 442-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Ruane ◽  
Jennifer Todd
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Power Perception ◽  
The Impact

The recent literature on path dependence provides a model that can be used in explanation of ethnic conflict and settlement processes. Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this article identifies path dependent patterns of conflict embedded in long-term processes of political development whose change may interrupt these patterns. It highlights the importance of long-term state trajectories in constituting and reproducing these patterns, the generation of ‘endogenous’ processes of change and the impact of wider geopolitical processes in strengthening these. It shows how and why factors such as power, perception, networks and institutions vary in their impact on conflict and explains when they work together to produce settlement.

scholarly journals The legitimacy of global accounting rules: a note on the challenges from path-dependence theory

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Pittroff
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Accounting Standards ◽  
Accounting Regulation ◽  
Real Convergence ◽  
Governance Systems ◽  
Dependence Theory ◽  
Accounting Rules ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Path Dependence Theory

AbstractThis paper discusses the legitimacy of the convergence of accounting regulation from the view of path-dependence theory. It is argued here that legitimacy of converged accounting rules is almost impossible to achieve because of the path-dependent development of corporate governance systems, which depends on the prevailing norms and beliefs of society. The different elements of corporate governance systems have to be consistent with these values in order to achieve the real convergence of accounting standards. The paper analyses the development of accounting convergence and discusses different convergence strategies from the view of legitimacy theory and path-dependence theory. Finally, the paper presents a hypothetical solution under which real convergence of accounting standards seems possible. The results of the paper are relevant for accounting research, and important to regulators as well, because, by analysing the factors that influence convergence, the paper is able to help us to understand why real convergence of accounting regulation may be difficult to achieve.

Hungarian cultural autonomy in Vojvodina from the 1974 Socialist Constitution to the 2009 Statute of Autonomy: path dependence dynamics against the reversal of minority policies

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonas Tolvaišis
Keyword(s):  
Path Dependence ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Policy Domain ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Autonomous Province ◽  
Minority Policies

Applying a historical institutionalist theoretical perspective to the ethnic minority policy domain, the article attempts to explain why state policies toward minorities may be difficult to reverse once introduced. Focusing on a case study of the cultural status of the Vojvodina Hungarian minority in Serbia, the article attempts to find out the forms taken by self-reinforcing dynamics associated with minority-related policies, once they are de-institutionalized. The paper deals with the evolution of the concept of Hungarian cultural autonomy in Vojvodina in the context of the transition from the socialist framework of minority rights protection, applied in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina under the 1974 Constitution, to the system established by the Law on National Councils of National Minorities and the Statute of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina adopted in 2009, after the interim period of state centralization in the 1990s. The Vojvodina case study exemplifies the costs faced by governments aspiring to reverse these policies and allows the identification of path-dependent factors behind the collective action processes related to the main principles of these policies, and conditions that allow these principles to outlive the abolishment of respective institutional arrangements, persist across radical political and social changes over time, and re-emerge at later historical stages, in new institutional settings.

scholarly journals Delineation of the Path Dependence in Development of Central Business Districts (CBD) in Turkey's Kayseri

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Neşe Yılmaz Bakır
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
Central Business Districts ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Business District

This article examines the demolition-oriented restructuring relationship during urban development processes in the case study of the central business district in Kayseri (Turkey) by systematically analysing externally-conditioned events and trajectories. This transformation, characterised by changing periods of development and the analysis of the actors who are particularly active in the process, is explored through the socio-spatial developments in Kayseri. In this study, this has been expounded through the concept of path dependence, which states that current conditions are more dependent on past events and those past events lead to today's results. The decisions on the historically contingent periods and three critical junctures identified in the study were found to have been maintained until the next stage and strengthened by following the path-dependent tendency.

Complex Causal Relations and Case Study Methods: The Example of Path Dependence

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 250-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bennett ◽  
Colin Elman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Process Tracing ◽  
Omitted Variables ◽  
Current Path ◽  
Holistic Analysis ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Causal Complexity ◽  
Case Study Methods

This article discusses the application of qualitative methods in analyzing causal complexity. In particular, the essay reviews how process tracing and systematic case comparisons can address path-dependent explanations. The article unpacks the concept of path dependence and its component elements of causal possibility, contingency, closure of alternatives, and constraints to the current path. The article then reviews four strengths that case studies bring to the study of path dependence: offering a detailed and holistic analysis of sequences in historical cases, being suitable for the study of rare events, facilitating the search for omitted variables that might lie behind contingent events, and allowing for the study of interaction effects within one or a few cases.

Community of inquiry

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Lorino
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Management Information System ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Community Of Inquiry ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Democratic Life ◽  
General Concern

Pragmatist inquiry involves a group of inquirers who face a break in their experience and pursue existential motives. They must continuously build reciprocal intelligibility. The felicitous outcome requires reciprocal trust, transforming the group of inquirers into a temporary community. The community dimension of inquiry is illustrated through a case study: the implementation of an integrated management information system in an electricity company. It identifies the roles of two types of communities: communities of practice, characterized by common practice, and communities of inquiry, characterized by the diversity of practices but an agreed general concern. The concept of community of inquiry was initially sketched by classic pragmatist authors and later developed by organization scholars, particularly in the field of public management. It is related to Follett’s view of “group organization” as the basis of democratic life and Latour’s concept of “matter of concern.”

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