Assembling Path Dependency and History
An Actor-Network Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3590845 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bert De Munck (0000-0002-1927-9254, Business Roundtable, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 565-588 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_01767 |
| OpenAlex | W4226024473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Historians and social scientists struggling to redefine the relationship between synchrony (structure) and diachrony (events and human agency) have recently turned to the notion of path dependence, the core idea of which is that history matters. But history and path-dependence theory have less in common than might appear at first glance. Actor-network theory (ant) helps to bridge the gap between history and path dependence by incorporating the complex, layered, open, and hybrid nature of interlocked economic, symbolic, institutional-political, and socio-technical systems
Actor–network theory · Agency (philosophy) · Bridge (graph theory) · Core (optical fiber) · Dependency (UML) · Economic geography · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Path (computing) · Path dependence · Path dependency · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Structure and agency · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Qualitative Comparative Analysis Research
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |