Historicism and Industry Emergence: Industry Knowledge from Pre-Emergence to Stylized Fact
Historicism and Industry Emergence: Industry Knowledge from Pre-Emergence to Stylized Fact
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历史决定论与行业兴起:从出现前到程式化事实的行业知识
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646890.003.0009
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发表时间:
2014
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R. Daniel Wadhwani
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D. Kirsch;Mahka Moeen;R. Daniel Wadhwani
In recent years, organization scholars’ interest in accounting for the emergence and evolution of industries has led to a growing engagement with historical settings and sources (Ventresca and Mohr, 2002). A turn toward the past can be found in scholarship across many theoretical schools in macro-organizational research, including neo-institutionalism (Hargadon and Douglas, 2001; Leblebici et al., 1991), organizational ecology (Hannan and Freeman, 1987), evolutionary economics (Gort and Klepper, 1982; Nelson and Winter, 1982), and socio-cognitive perspectives (Henderson and Clark, 1990; Tripsas and Gavetti, 2000). Indeed, this research has often included efforts to draw on historical evidence not only from recent decades, but also from the more distant past (Haveman and Rao, 1997) and to examine industries over long spans of time (Tripsas, 1997).The increasing use of data and sources from the past raises the broader question of exactly how historical research and reasoning is valuable in the study of industries. The predominant response to this question in mainstream organizational studies might be described as one focused on the identification of “historical mechanisms,” a perspective that views history as a context for examining theoretically relevant questions about how time and the sequence of organizational events shape the evolution of markets. The research that draws on historical evidence to examine imprinting (Marquis, 2003), evolutionary change (Murmann, 2006; Aldrich and Ruef, 2006), and path dependence