Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
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Dynamic capabilities, what are they?
The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage
Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance
Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension
Business Models, Business Strategy and Innovation
References
Preemptive Patenting and the Persistence of Monopoly
Determinants of firm performance: the relative importance of economic and organizational factors
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Competition, cooperation, and innovation: Organizational arrangements for regimes of rapid technological progress
The role of investment in entry-deterrence
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Q2. Why does the capabilities approach tend to steer managers toward creating new sources of value?
Because of imperfect factor markets, or more Unit of analysis and analytic focus precisely the nontradability of ‘soft’ assets like values, culture, and organizational experience, Because in the capabilities and the resources framework business opportunities flow from adistinctive competences and capabilities generally cannot be acquired; they must be built.
Q3. What is the role of benchmarking in facilitating the transfer of practice?
Szulanski also and structured, trial and error and learning-by-doing are necessary, whereas in mature environments where the underly-discusses the role of benchmarking in facilitating the transfer of best practice.
Q4. What is the likely approach to a strategic conflict?
The strategic conflict approach is likelycompanies tend to favor ‘strategic leaps’ while, in contrast, Japanese and German companies tend to be a little more permissive; acquisitions that raise rivals’ costs or enable firms to effectuateto favor incremental, but rapid, improvements.
Q5. What is the role of the local market in determining the competitiveness of firms?
Porter (1990), for example, shows that differencesReplication in local product markets, local factor markets, and institutions play an important role in shapingTo understand imitation, one must first understand replication.
Q6. What does the capabilities approach tell us?
Brittain and Freeman (1980) using population ecology methodologies argued that an organization is 62 Cantwell shows that the technological competence of firmsquick to expand when there is a significant overpersists over time, gradually evolving through firm-specific lap between its core capabilities and those needed learning.
Q7. What is the idea that the understanding of processes is so key to process improvement?
the notion that the understanding of processes, both in production and in management, is theLippman and Rumelt (1992) have argued that some sources of competitive advantage are so key to process improvement.