THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG: LINKING EARLY ORGANIZATIONAL CHOICES WITH SUBSEQUENT ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN A CROSS-AGENCY COLLABORATION

摘要

@@ It is commonplace in many of the social sciences to argue that events or choices early in the history of a nation, a social phenomenon, or an organization can influence what happens to the entity decades or even centuries later. The European countries that are predominantly Protestant today are those whose kings became Protestant during the Reformation. Germany‘s experience during the hyperinflation of the 1920‘s influenced German public opinion and government behavior in the nation‘s response to the crisis in the Eurozone almost a hundred years later. Allison (1971) presents the proposition that t+1=t is a basic feature of organization behavior, meaning that if one seeks to understand an organization‘s actions today, it is important to know what it was at an earlier time.