Authors: Jesper Aastrup
This work-in-progress paper presents some initial considerations for a study aiming at analysing path dependencies in the European intermodal rail-road industry. More specifically this paper reviews some of the literature relating to path-dependency in networks and relate it to a specific interpretation of the structure-agency duality, and the attempt is to move towards an initial explication of the authors view of the phenomenon.Based on Håkansson & Lundgren (1995), Araujo & Harrison (2000) and own work (Aastrup, 2000) the paper proposes an explanatory structure with different layers of path-dependency ultimately to be understood as a duality of structure and agency. Secondly, the paper presents two versions of path-dependency and relate these to the proposed explanatory structure. These are economics of increasing returns (the AD story) and evolutionary economics (the NW story). Finally the paper discusses different contributions to an IMP based story ? and outline what is regarded as the essence of such an IMP view (biased towards the authors view, obviously) as well as the possible role of some IMP models and concepts in relation to the proposed explanatory structure.
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Publish Year: 2003
Conference: Lugano, Switzerland (2003)