期刊名称：Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
印刷版ISSN：0718-1876
电子版ISSN：0718-1876
出版年度：2016
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：16-27
语种：English
出版社：Universidad de Talca
其他摘要：The explanation of how and why firms succeed or fail is a recurrent research challenge. This is particularly important in the context of technological innovations. We focus on the role of historical events and decisions in explaining such success and failure. Using a case study of Nokia, we develop and extend a multi-layer path dependence framework. We identify four layers of path dependence: technical, strategic and leadership, organizational, and external collaboration. We show how path dependence at these four interdependent layers can blindfold the organization from seeing and understanding the importance of intermediate outcomes, which in the case of Nokia was the importance of software ecosystems and a daptable mobile devices. Furthermore, we show how the layers of path dependence mutually reinforce each other and become stronger.
其他关键词：Path creation; Path dependence; Mobile industry; Nokia; Evolutionary theories.
