History Matters for Organizations: An Integrative Framework for Understanding Influences from the Past
构建了一个整合框架，将过去分解为关键转折期和持续过程期，提出六种历史影响类型（如印记、路径依赖），帮助学者研究历史如何塑造组织，并指导管理者应对历史影响。
We develop a comprehensive framework of how history matters for organizations. We first decompose the past into two distinct stages: (a) junctures and (b) processual periods. “Junctures” are relatively short periods when organizations develop structures, routines, and cultures that then have a lasting influence. “Processual periods” are longer and more stable times when past influence may become strengthened, preserved, or weakened. Combining one juncture and one processual period, we develop a typology of six ideal types of historical influence encompassing cohort effect, imprinting, path dependence, inertial decay, path stability, and dissipation. Our integrative framework helps (a) advance existing and extend new theories of the past, (b) enable empirical research on historical processes to draw more convincing conclusions from data, and (c) better inform the practice of managing influences from the past. Our study sets the stage for more cumulative knowledge of how history enduringly matters for organizations.