路径依赖
代理(哲学)
路径(计算)
医疗保健
过程(计算)
组织变革
组织学习
领域(数学)
社会学
心理学
公共关系
作者
Florian Stache,Jörg Sydow
标识
DOI:10.1177/01708406221103965
摘要
The theory of organizational path dependence helps us to understand why organizational change is sometimes extremely difficult, if not impossible. Although recent conceptualizations of path dependence allow for strategic agency, the theory is still underspecified regarding how to break an organizational path. In an attempt to develop the theory in this regard, we make use of a case in the sphere of global health with an undisputed life-saving impact. More precisely, we trace a significant improvement in the field of pediatric cancer care back to path-breaking organizational change: the successful introduction of multi¬center cooperation within a health-care system that is arguably locked-into a centralization path. Drawing on longitudinal research conducted within Russian hospitals, we conclude that path-breaking change is an intricate process based upon distinct activities, and supported by mechanisms, directed towards the creation of a new organizational path.
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