Origins are neither fully determined nor fully open to choice

Evidence

Thus, Phase I should build on a historically framed or imprinted contingency and, therefore, neither on the assumption of determinacy nor on that of completely unrestricted choice. The shadow in Phase I in Figure 1 is intended to indicate this institutional heritage. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 33

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the structure-agency debate and Giddens on the duality of structure.
• SEED: Angle: why ‘contingency plus imprint’ beats both free-choice and deterministic founder myths in startup narratives.