Evolutionary and coevolutionary theorists favor path dependence yet still underuse the concept.

Evidence

Other evolutionary and, more recently, coevolutionary theoriests make explicit use of the notion of path dependence and tend to prefer it to other concepts (e.g., Helfat, 1994; Nelson & Winter, 1982; Volberda & Lewin, 2003). Given its relatedness to economic evolutionary theory, one seedbed of path, dependence research (e.g., Dosi, 1982; Witt, 1997), this certainly comes as no surprise. Nevertheless, the concept of path dependence has not yet been fully utilized in this stream of research either. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 68

Categorization

• SEED: A short essay on why fields adopt a borrowed concept’s vocabulary while ignoring its analytic machinery could be built on this gap claim.