Analyzing path dependence: Lessons from the social sciences

Understanding Change: Models, Methodologies and Metaphors

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 129-139

  Mahoney, James ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524644_9     Document Type: Chapter

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