Self-reinforcing social mechanisms drive the flip from flexibility to rigidity

Evidence

The dynamic eventually flips over into rigidity. At their heart, such processes can be explained by one or a combination of several self-reinforcing social mechanisms. In this section we elaborate on these mechanisms in an organizational context. — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 75

Categorization

• SEED: Angle for an essay: cataloguing self-reinforcing mechanisms (coordination effects, learning, adaptive expectations) as engineering design patterns for organizations.