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Path Dependence and Creation.(Book Review)

By Koput, Kenneth W.
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
Date: Saturday, March 1 2003

Raghu Garud and Peter Karnoe, eds. Mahwah, NJ' LEA, 2001. 399 pp. $55.00.

Path Dependence and Creation is a thematic volume intended to remind us that even when path dependence seems to lock human or organizational actors into suboptimal technologies, practices, or structures, these paths are not thrust upon the actors by fate or fortune only to be understood retrospectively but are created by often forward-looking acts of human agency. Garud and Karnoe have brought together a collection of 14 chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of authors with the

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