Given the wide variety of political, regulatory and managerial contexts in which divestitures are undertaken, the generalizability of current (and typically U.S.-based) findings may be reduced, and subsequent revisions and extensions of our current thinking may thus be required.
Accordingly, these findings provide evidence supporting the view that, in contrast to stochastic processes in technological contexts, path dependence in managerial contexts seems to be a social process that is endogenously created in and though organizations' own decisions and actions (Duschek 2010; Greve and Seidel 2014; Koch 2011; MacKay and Chia 2013; Sydow et al. 2009).
In line with debates on further conceptual advancements of path dependence in managerial contexts, recent contributions to the management literature have disseminated a more comprehensive understanding of the concept (Garud et al. 2010; Sydow et al. 2009; Vergne and Durand 2010).
The current analysis assumes that eBay's managerial decision making context involves three decision variables that are stochastic, but partially under the control of the auction market's management reflected in their particular parametric settings.
In order to test different elements of the PT, we aim at identifying extreme cases that would present variation in term of managerial practices, organisational context, characteristics of individuals, availability of resources and volunteer behaviour.
On the contrary, when farmers call for help on herd health management issues, the challenges may be highly embedded in the economic, managerial, and social contexts of the farm.
Table 1 summarises commonalities in the governance of societal and managerial risks in the context of volcanic hazards.
Table 1 summarises a common approach to the governance of societal and managerial risks in the context of volcanic hazards.
It is possible that with time the respondents better understand the difficulties attached to, and efforts made to accomplish, managerial tasks in this context.
This is expected to lead to a better understanding and to plausible explanations of how interactions between actors, leadership, managerial practices and organisational context influence volunteer motivation and work behaviour.
