English Explanatory Dictionary

path dependence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A situation in which the outcome varies with the route taken.
  2. The theory that a technological option selected by the market need not be the technologically best one, because of the traction obtained by an early-introduced, technologically inferior alternative option.

Word forms

path dependence path dependences path dependency

Related words

lock-in
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