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The dynamic capabilities perspective of strategic management: a co-citation analysis
Abstract
Dynamic capabilities currently emerge as a vibrant field of study within the theoretical framework based on resource and strategic management. To this end, and as a complex field of study, we set out to conceptually map this approach. Hence, we carried out a bibliometric study with recourse to co-citations. For the multivariate analysis, we applied cluster analysis and factor analysis. Through the former, we conclude that dynamic capacities concentrate on five approaches: Digital Capabilities, Knowledge Capabilities, Absorptive Capabilities, Strategic Capabilities and Resources. As regards factor analysis, this returns five factors with two of them concentrated into the same approach: Resources and Capabilities. We would also state that the Strategic Capabilities approach spans across the remaining three factors and does not constitute a single factor.
... In this context, and in accordance with the approach proposed by Ferreira et al. (2016), this research aims to analyse the influence of OE and MO, as Dynamic Capabilities (DC), on the international performance of SMEs, integrating the DC theoretical approach. More specifically, the objective of this study is to examine how EO and MO, which the literature identifies as DC (Hakala, 2011;Boso et al., 2013;Gerschewski et al., 2015;Mac and Evagelista, 2016;Fernandes et al., 2017;D'Angelo and Presutti, 2019;Ipek and Bıçakcıoğlu, 2020), influence the performance of SMEs in international markets with the factor of scale characteristic of these companies generating a moderating effect on the relationship between their strategies and levels of international performance. Fernandes et al. (2017), through the means of bibliometric analysis, conclude that the DC approach may concentrate on five factors: digital capabilities, knowledge capabilities, absorptive capabilities, strategic capabilities and resources. ...
... More specifically, the objective of this study is to examine how EO and MO, which the literature identifies as DC (Hakala, 2011;Boso et al., 2013;Gerschewski et al., 2015;Mac and Evagelista, 2016;Fernandes et al., 2017;D'Angelo and Presutti, 2019;Ipek and Bıçakcıoğlu, 2020), influence the performance of SMEs in international markets with the factor of scale characteristic of these companies generating a moderating effect on the relationship between their strategies and levels of international performance. Fernandes et al. (2017), through the means of bibliometric analysis, conclude that the DC approach may concentrate on five factors: digital capabilities, knowledge capabilities, absorptive capabilities, strategic capabilities and resources. Within this scope, we grasp the relevance of providing an overview of the knowledge that we now have and therefore refining the vision of DC so as to advance our understanding of the various divergent results and driving a focused agenda for future research studies. ...
... However, according to this vision, it is fundamental to reinterpret the impact of diverse strategic factors on international performance while simultaneously verifying to what extent the scale and organisational structures of companies influence all of these variables. With dynamic capabilities such a vast field of study, it is also important to consider to what extent we might systematise their study as suggested by Fernandes et al. (2017) within the scope of generating explanatory theories able to underpin this field of study. ...
... By using the bibliometric technique in this research, we identify the most influential authors and works, as well as the existing links between them, mapping the intellectual structure of the BSC under a new approach (Di Stefano, Peteraf, & Verona, 2010;Fernandes, et al., 2017). And in doing so, we fill the current gap existing in the BSC insight, not only identifying the most remarkable authors, articles and reviews -which influence in the scholar community has played a key role in their works-but also analysing its evolution and changes. ...
... 'Quality/Impact' section includes indicators as: most cited references, analysing both articles and books; and the 24 most relevant reviews, analysing the number of articles published, the citations received, and the average between citations and the articles cited. Eventually, 'Structural/Relationship' section includes the results of the co-citation analysis, where three techniques are often used to identify the structure of the field to be studied: multidimensional scaling (MDS), to map the connections among the co-citations between articles; cluster analysis, for grouping together interrelated articles into different blocks; and, factor analysis, to identify articles that have something in common (Di Stefano, Peteraf, & Verona, 2010;Fernandes, et al., 2017;McCain, 1990). ...
... According to previous studies (Fernandes, et al., 2017;García-Lillo, Úbeda-García, & Marco-Lajara, 2016;Dzikowski, 2018;Ramos-Rodríguez & Ruíz-Navarro, 2004), as the volume of the data collected is too high and in order to make it easy to handle, a cut-off was carried out selecting the documents with higher impact. ...
This research provides a deeper knowledge in the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) insight by using the bibliometric technique. The existing gap between the traditional literatura reviews and previous bibliometric studies, is covered as it is the first comprehensive analysis carried out in applying quantity, quality, and structural indicators. Web of Science Core Collection was used as the source of information, considering it the most accurate and suitable data base for these studies. This research covers the wider period-of-time possible, from 1992 to 2020, with a final sample of 771 articles in 466 reviews. Quantity indicators show the high interest that the BSC still has in the scholar's community, pointing out Kaplan and Norton as the most productive authors,and confirming that 'management', 'business' and 'accountability' are its most common field of activity, although others as 'systems' and sustainability' are coming to prominence; 'Balanced Scorecard' appears as the most remarkable keyword. Quality indicators found 32,706 citations, with Kaplan and Norton occupying again top positions as well as 'Harvard Business Review' as the most impacting review both in cited articles and in average. Co-citation analysis reveals the existence of a triple corecluster for articles, based on the theory, literature reviews, and case-studies.
... In this section, we explore the co-citation matrix using k-means clustering technique. A co-citation matrix is developed by identifying cited documents in the field of research of interest and then finding similarity by counting the co-cited documents (Fernandes et al. 2017). To compute the matrix, the 100 most cited documents in the field are retrieved from Web of Science database without publication year limitations and the search is repeated with SCOPUS database, and duplicates removed. ...
... The diagonal values of the similarity matrix are computed by summing the three highest values of the corresponding row of the similarity matrix and dividing the sum by two. The correlation matrix is subsequently calculated using this similarity matrix (White and Griffith, 1981;Culnan, 1986;and Fernandes et al. 2017). A k-means clustering analysis, which is a correlation analysis of the co-citation matrix, is a popular way for generating clusters (Kanungo et al. 2002;Fernandes et al. 2017). ...
... The correlation matrix is subsequently calculated using this similarity matrix (White and Griffith, 1981;Culnan, 1986;and Fernandes et al. 2017). A k-means clustering analysis, which is a correlation analysis of the co-citation matrix, is a popular way for generating clusters (Kanungo et al. 2002;Fernandes et al. 2017). The R-package, "NbClust" which implements the Ward's method (Charrad et al. 2014) results in four K-means clusters (k=4) in the Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) plot in Figure 7. ...
... Digital technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) trigger significant changes to the organization's properties, widely known as digital transformation (DT) [1]. That is why DT has become an emerging phenomenon in strategic information research and industrial business practice [9,29,31]. At a macro level, all of society is experiencing profound changes as a result of the explosion in digital technology across various industries such as manufacturing, newspaper, and healthcare [85,108,111,112]. ...
... The traditional model is very simplistic. However, a study of around 2,500 articles on dynamic capabilities in the strategy field found many and diverse theoretical approaches to dynamic capabilities [31]. ...
... Here, user experience is usually the key evaluation indicator [80]. The focus in digital capabilities #6 is on the capabilities required by organizations and individuals in the DT process, which are divided into digital [81,82], dynamic [83][84][85][86], and their combination [31,87]. A few studies have attempted to shed light on the connotation of some capabilities. ...
Digital transformation (DT) is prevalent in businesses today. However, current studies to guide DT are mostly qualitative, resulting in a strong call for quantitative evidence of exactly what DT is and the capabilities needed to enable it successfully. With the aim of filling the gaps, this paper presents a novel bibliometric framework that unearths clues from scientific articles and patents. The framework incorporates the scientific evolutionary pathways and hierarchical topic tree to quantitatively identify the DT research topics’ evolutionary patterns and hierarchies at play in DT research. Our results include a comprehensive definition of DT from the perspective of bibliometrics and a systematic categorization of the capabilities required to enable DT, distilled from over 10,179 academic papers on DT. To further yield practical insights on technological capabilities, the paper also includes a case study of 9,454 patents focusing on one of the emerging technologies - artificial intelligence (AI). We summarized the outcomes with a four-level AI capabilities model. The paper ends with a discussion on its contributions: presenting a quantitative account of the DT research, introducing a process-based understanding of DT, offering a list of major capabilities enabling DT, and drawing the attention of managers to be aware of capabilities needed when undertaking their DT journey.
... The co-citation analysis has been recently applied for understanding and investigating the research streams on firm capabilities. For example, the dynamic capabilities are explored by Di Stefano et al. (2010); Peteraf et al., (2013) and Fernandes et al., (2017), focusing respectively on the origins and state of development, the domains of knowledge, and the approaches at the base of the construct; Chabowski et al., (2013) examine the global branding literature from a capability perspective; Annarelli and Nonino (2016) focus on the organizational resilience; Apriliyanti and Alon (2017) investigate the absorptive capacity. The bibliographic co-citation analysis represents a necessary methodology to identify the pertinent terms in use (Chabowski et al., 2013) for digitalization capabilities and capture the richness of the construct (Apriliyanti and Alon, 2017), as publications on the topic of digitalization are growing exponentially and in different research fields, lacking a commonly accepted operationalization and interpretation for related firm capabilities. ...
... Finally, the CPI values were converted into correlation coefficients in order to standardize the co-citation to reduce the number of zeros in the matrix and avoid potential scale effects (Fernandes et al., 2017). The obtained Pearson's correlation matrix was then adopted as an input for Factor Analysis (FA) and Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), two methods employed to identify and analyze factors (or clusters) among selected papers and observe their conceptual proximity (Annarelli and Nonino, 2016;Fernandes et al., 2017). ...
... Finally, the CPI values were converted into correlation coefficients in order to standardize the co-citation to reduce the number of zeros in the matrix and avoid potential scale effects (Fernandes et al., 2017). The obtained Pearson's correlation matrix was then adopted as an input for Factor Analysis (FA) and Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), two methods employed to identify and analyze factors (or clusters) among selected papers and observe their conceptual proximity (Annarelli and Nonino, 2016;Fernandes et al., 2017). Specifically, for the FA we used the Principal Component Analysis to identify the main components shared by the articles in the sample, the articles belonging to each arising factor and the relative importance in terms of weighting. ...
Recent decades have witnessed increased number of studies focusing on digitalization and related capabilities. Across disciplines digitalization capability is viewed as a sources of sustained competiveness. Nonetheless, several issues related to conceptualizing digitalization capabilities remain ambivalent. The present study, uses co-citation analysis to clarify concept of digitalization capability and identify three underlining capabilities, namely digital integration capabilities, digital platform capabilities, and digital innovation capabilities, that represents micro-foundation of digitalization capabilities. Further, a capability-based model is developed which includes antecedents and consequences of digitalization capabilities in an integrated conceptual model. Suggestions for future research, theoretical contributions and managerial contributions are also presented.
... Environmental uncertainty promotes technological innovation (Chen et al., 2022) as innovativeness expands performance (Arici & Gok, 2023). In dynamic settings, firms try to be innovative (Zand & Rezaei, 2020), as uncertainty persuades learning to improve performance and competitiveness (Fernandes et al., 2017). Organizations respond to uncertainty by adopting technologies, like Industry 4.0, to stay competitive and improve performance (Kumar & Bhatia, 2021). ...
... The findings also support that the changes in technological factors persuade changes in non-technological factors to create an effective alignment to fetch desired productivity (Črešnar et al., 2023). Environmental uncertainty motivates firms to introduce innovations that effectively respond to external factors (Zand & Rezaei, 2020), improve performance (Arici & Gok, 2023), and sustain competitiveness (Fernandes et al., 2017). ...
This study examined the relationship between dynamic capabilities and sustainable competitive advantage through technological and non-technological innovation under environmental uncertainty. The proposed interactive model has been explained using the dynamic capabilities theory. Data were collected from 246 managers in the textile manufacturing industries in Pakistan through a two-point survey. The measurement model showed excellent psychometric qualities for all variable measures. Findings provide that dynamic capabilities have a significant positive relationship with sustainable competitive advantage mediated by technological and non-technological innovations in parallel and serial ways. Environmental uncertainty accelerated the positive impact of dynamic capabilities on both these forms of innovation, leading to sustainable competitive advantage. Findings emphasize the importance of dynamic capabilities in the manufacturing industry and support investment in developing such capabilities, which enhance industry innovation and competitiveness.
... Teece et al. (1997) put forward the first comprehensive approach to DCs in the scientific literature. Subsequently, hundreds of articles and studies conceptually approach this topic (Di Stefano et al., 2014;Fernandes et al., 2017;. ...
... The swift growth of the DCs literature includes a broad theoretical variety and considerable methodological scope, thus rendering it difficult, but not impossible, to maintain close control over the directions this research field takes. Various studies establish the intellectual foundations of the DC approach, not just summarising the definitions, but also discussing the respective components, determinants, obstacles, key empirical results, as well as identifying the conceptual shortcomings and the difficulties arising from its empirical applications (Zahra et al., 2006;Schreyögg and Kliesch-Eberl, 2007;Wang and Ahmed, 2007;Ambrosini and Bowman, 2009;Barreto 2010;Fernandes et al., 2017;Hock-Doepgen, et al. 2021). An additional problem stems from the increasing proliferation of relevant publications. ...
Dynamic capabilities (DCs) are a growing field of research within the scope of theoretical structures based on resource and strategic management. Given the demonstrated impact of DCs on company performance, it is important to study the effects of DCs on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, this research evaluates the role of DCs during the pandemic and its impact on the performance levels of SMEs. Analysing the responses of 209 SMEs using a structural equations model, we report that DCs positively affect company performance both prior to and during the pandemic. However, we also verify that while prior to the pandemic companies placed greater emphasis on the search for new opportunities, following the onset of the pandemic the focus shifted to getting their products to the market. These results contribute to the literature on strategic management and the DC based approach during periods of turbulence and pandemics.
... Several previous review studies (Fernandes et al., 2017;Ferreira et al., 2016;Köseoglu and Parnell, 2020;Köseoglu et al., 2021a;Nerur et al., 2008;Ramos-Rodríguez and Ruíz-Navarro, 2004) have identified the evolution of the research and the sub-fields in mainstream SM research, using bibliographic analysis. However, identifying the origins, trends, and knowledge bases in specific industries is less common because the formulation and implementation of the strategies differ between business environments (Whitley, 1992). ...
... Third, this study identified seven SM research clusters in the hospitality field, which showed remarkable differences from the five research clusters previously identified in the business field (Fernandes et al., 2017). In the business field, the five identified research clusters were digital capabilities, knowledge capabilities, absorptive capabilities, strategic capabilities, and resources and capabilities. ...
This paper aims to identify the knowledge creation and dissemination of strategic management (SM) in the hospitality literature using citation and co-citation analysis. A database of 10,782 SM-related articles and 306,701 reference appearances in seven leading hospitality journals over the period 1960–2020 was derived from the Scopus repository. Intellectual mapping of the 100 most-cited SM-related reference appearances was visualized using VOSviewer. The outcomes of this study show that hospitality-focused SM articles outweighed mainstream business-focused SM articles in the hospitality literature. Seven diverse SM research clusters were identified. SM research in the hospitality field is heavily focused on practical implications and relationship testing. Theory application and theory development are required to strengthen the current SM knowledge in the hospitality literature.
... Furthermore, Gain Ratio (GR), used for data analysis, handles multi values attributes under splitting ratio of 0 and 1, to improve feature selection stability. It ensures that selection is not based only on those features that have a high number of distinct values and provides a fairer way to carry out feature selection for cases where the decision tree algorithm will be used [18]. The method is particularly suitable for the use with the large data that can have various features. ...
... This configuration has been expanded, adding new dynamic capabilities to this approach. Fernandes et al. (2017) identify four distinct types of dynamic capabilities in a systematic literature review: knowledge capabilities, digital capabilities, strategic capabilities, absorptive capabilities, and resources. Resilience capabilities have also been observed as an extremely important type of dynamic capabilities in the success of companies (Eriksson, Heikila, and Nummela 2022). ...
Although the importance of integrating digital technologies in micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) is growing rapidly, empirical research related to knowledge spillovers (KS), organizational resilience, innovation orientation, and digital capabilities still remains scarce. This research proposes a framework in which we verify the moderating effect of digital capabilities on the relationship between KS, organizational resilience, and innovation orientation. Another aim of this research is to study the effect of KS and organizational resilience on innovation orientation by conducting a quantitative study utilizing data from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, collected at three separate times. Drawing from a sample of 2291 MSMEs in the service sector across 15 EU countries, the partial least squares structural equation modeling was the method used to evaluate our proposed conceptual model and examine the hypothesized relationships. The findings reveal that KSs have a positive effect on innovation orientation by leveraging digital capabilities. In addition, the empirical evidence demonstrates that both KS and organizational resilience have a positive impact on innovation orientation. This research also makes several theoretical and practical contributions.
... However, by examining the demographic traits and distinctive coping strategies of SME owners and managers in Mafikeng, this study introduces something new. One adaptation technique that is in line with the ideas of dynamic capacities theory is the use of manual labor and non-electric machinery, along with investments in solar panels and backup generators (Fernandes et al., 2017). By demonstrating that SMEs with limited resources must innovate within their limitations to ensure operational continuity, this study broadens the theoretical framework. ...
The frequent power outages in South Africa have had a detrimental impact on the nation’s economy overall and on small and medium-sized enterprises in particular. The goal of this study is to determine how load shedding affects small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa. The research design pinpoints practical ways to reduce the negative effects of power outages on these companies. This study adopts a quantitative research approach. Fifty SME owners and managers from the Mahikeng local municipality were selected to represent the entire country using a descriptive single cross-sectional design and a non-probability convenience sample technique. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS), Version 27.0, was used to evaluate the collected data. The findings of the study indicate that load shedding has caused significant operational problems for South African small enterprises since 2008. As a result, to maintain output, many companies have had to make adaptations, including establishing backup power solutions and moving to manual labor. SMEs continue to face significant challenges because of the high cost of backup systems, the increase in criminal activity during blackouts, and the requirement for open and positive customer relations, despite efforts to mitigate these consequences. The present study underscores the criticality of SMEs’ investments in crime prevention strategies and dependable backup power systems in Mafikeng and throughout South Africa to mitigate the adverse impacts of ongoing load shedding on commercial operations and economic stability. It is underlined that maintaining client confidence and ensuring continued business performance despite these challenges requires effective customer relationship management.
... According to Barreto (2010), studies should compare the effects of distinctive environmental conditions (different industries or different timeframes) as there is still only scant research explicitly approaching just which types of company are most susceptible to benefitting from DC. More recently, Fernandes et al. (2017), through a bibliometric study with recourse to co-citations, apply cluster analysis and factorial analysis to identify five distinct approaches to DC: digital capabilities, knowledge capabilities, absorption capabilities, strategic capabilities and resources and capacities. However, according to these same authors, the lack of empirical validation has ensured that the concept remains under construction and hence empirical advances shall return a better theoretical understanding of DC. ...
In all sectors, whether public or private, the current organizational context is characterized by technological, economic, political, social, and cultural changes, which affect the ongoing relations between countries and companies. In the public sector, the political factor and its political cycles are more present, as well as social and human responsibilities in health allow us to differentiate our study environment from all the others. Currently, during the pandemic phase, according to the need for adaptation and dynamics of the Health Units, this was even more visible. Dynamic capabilities (DCs) need to be renewed to respond to emerging changes in the environment, and organizations must develop their capabilities to sustain good levels of performance. Therefore, CDs play an essential role in the performance of organizations. The main objectives of this study are to study the HC in Health Units during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the objective of developing a mapping of indicators that would allow a more efficient response to the organizational and structural changes of the Health Units, users' needs (whether COVID or non-COVID). This article presents preliminary data from an investigation still ongoing on the topic. As contributions, we highlight how the study helps to identify the relationships between the various capacities, relating the importance of technological capacity, human resources capacity and the special importance given to learning resources (through routine activities).
... Simultaneously, in highly dynamic environments, enterprises must possess robust capabilities in information technology acquisition, digital technology application, and resource integration. Failure to do so would render the maintenance of a competitive advantage exceedingly challenging (Yacob et al., 2022;Fernandes et al., 2017). Moreover, the digital transformation of traditional manufacturing enterprises necessitates corresponding policy support. ...
... Mexico and the Russian Federation demonstrate commitment in the field (16 and 15 documents, respectively), but with varying impact, as Mexico had 22 citations and Russia had none [70,[99][100][101]. Portugal, the United States, and France round out the list, with France standing out due to a high number of citations (167), despite having fewer documents (10), indicating highly influential research [69,[102][103][104][105]. ...
This study explored both the evolution and the integration of digital competencies within the context of open innovation, emphasizing the impact of technological advances across various sectors. The goal was to analyze documents indexed in Scopus from 2017 to 2023 using a quantitative and bibliometric approach. The methodology employed RStudio version 4.3.2 and Microsoft Excel 365 for data analysis, focusing on variables such as documents per year, h-index, total citations, and academic sources. The findings indicated a significant increase in research, highlighting a diversity of approaches, a trend towards international collaboration, and an evolution from basic concepts to complex applications, particularly the integration of digitization with sustainability and innovation. This research underscores the transformation of the business sector through digital competencies in open innovation and suggests further exploration into the effects of the pandemic on digital competencies, the role of artificial intelligence, the digital competencies-sustainable development relationship, and their application across different sectors.
... Mexico and the Russian Federation demonstrate commitment in the field (16 and 15 documents, respectively), but with varying impact, as Mexico had 22 citations and Russia had none [70,[99][100][101]. Portugal, the United States, and France round out the list, with France standing out due to a high number of citations (167), despite having fewer documents (10), indicating highly influential research [69,[102][103][104][105]. ...
This study explored both the evolution and the integration of digital competencies within the context of open innovation, emphasizing the impact of technological advances across various sectors. The goal was to analyze documents indexed in Scopus from 2017 to 2023 using a quantitative and bibliometric approach. The methodology employed RStudio version 4.3.2 and Microsoft Excel 365 for data analysis, focusing on variables such as documents per year, h-index, total citations, and academic sources. The findings indicated a significant increase in research, highlighting a diversity of approaches, a trend towards international collaboration, and an evolution from basic concepts to complex applications, particularly the integration of digitization with sustainability and innovation. This research underscores the transformation of the business sector through digital competencies in open innovation and suggests further exploration into the effects of the pandemic on digital competencies, the role of artificial intelligence, the digital competencies–sustainable development relationship, and their application across different sectors.
... ). D'ailleurs,Fernandes et al. (2017) soulignent que la vitesse de réaction des organisations peut impliquer une amélioration de leur performance grâce aux technologies numériques.Müller, Holm et Søndergaard (2015) soulignent également l'importance d'être réactif aux réponses du marché, aux consommateurs et aux autres parties prenantes et suggèrent l'utilisation de plateformes et du nuage numérique (cloud) pour acquérir la réactivité. ...
Partant d’une revue de la littérature, cet article propose un modèle de recherche conceptuel visant à répondre à la question suivante : quelles sont les composantes de la transformation numérique et comment influencent-elles l’internationalisation des PME ? Le modèle défend le rôle prépondérant de l’orientation numérique des propriétaires-dirigeants de PME, une relation entre la transformation numérique et le degré d’internationalisation, ainsi qu’un effet rétroactif de l’internationalisation sur la transformation numérique. Cet article a pour objectif de compléter la littérature sur l’entrepreneuriat international et de clarifier le rôle de la transformation numérique sur l’internationalisation des PME. D’un point de vue managérial, notre modèle permet aux dirigeants de PME de mieux préparer leur entreprise à une transformation numérique, en fonction de leur orientation et de leurs capacités.
... Melalui telaah literatur, kita dapat mengenali beragam model seperti Porter's Five Forces, analisis SWOT, dan model Blue Ocean Strategy, serta mengevaluasi keunggulan dan kelemahan masing-masing. Manajemen strategis membentuk dasar krusial untuk mencapai kesuksesan dan kelangsungan hidup suatu organisas (Fernandes et al., 2017). ...
This research aims to provide a comprehensive literature review on Strategic Management, focusing on its philosophy, stages, and models. The introduction presents the conceptual landscape of Strategic Management and the need for a profound understanding of the philosophies, stages, and models applied in a business context. The research method employs a literature review approach, specifically a Systematic Literature Review (SLR), analyzing 50 international and national research books and articles. Key findings involve the identification and analysis of the philosophies underpinning Strategic Management, critical stages in its implementation process, and effective models across various industries. The implications of this research encompass a enhanced understanding of the essence of Strategic Management for improved decision-making in dynamic business environments. Key words: Strategic Management, Philosophy, Stages, Models, Literature Review
... ). D'ailleurs,Fernandes et al. (2017) soulignent que la vitesse de réaction des organisations peut impliquer une amélioration de leur performance grâce aux technologies numériques.Müller, Holm et Søndergaard (2015) soulignent également l'importance d'être réactif aux réponses du marché, aux consommateurs et aux autres parties prenantes et suggèrent l'utilisation de plateformes et du nuage numérique (cloud) pour acquérir la réactivité. aux consommateurs et autres parties prenantes. ...
... The DC theory describes how firms can achieve a competitive advantage via exploiting their capabilities in an ever-changing business environment (Fernandes et al., 2017). In a highly volatile market such as the export market, not every capability can be unique and capable of satisfying the unique factors of being valuable, rare, inimitable and nonsubstitutable (Teece et al., 1997). ...
Purpose
This study aims to examine the influence of the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) dimensions (innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness, competitive aggressiveness and autonomy) on the export performance (EXP) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Design/methodology/approach
In this study a cross-sectional survey design was used and data were collected from 250 managers of manufacturing-exporting SMEs in Tanzania. The developed conceptual model was empirically tested using confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression.
Findings
The results reveal that innovativeness, risk-taking, competitive aggressiveness and autonomy have a significant positive influence on EXP. However, proactiveness hurts EXP. Additionally, findings indicate that the dimensions of EO do not have an equal impact on SMEs’ EXP.
Research limitations/implications
This study only covered SMEs; future studies would be advised to include large firms because they may behave differently with respect EO due to their resource advantages. Furthermore, this study was conducted in a single country, Tanzania, and thus the findings should be interpreted cautiously, since each country has specific institutional frameworks that foster entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture in a different way.
Originality/value
The context of this study contributes significantly to the research’s originality. The study contributes to the body of knowledge on the EO-EXP link in developing countries, where research on EO-export is scant, and it further contributes to the debate on the EO-EXP link by demonstrating that the dimensions of EO do not have an equal impact on SMEs’ EXP, and accordingly a disaggregated approach would be more meaningful. Furthermore, the study contributes with regards the role of competitive aggressiveness and autonomy in improving SMEs’ EXP, which has received little attention in previous studies.
... Citation analysis includes the counting of references to objectively identify articles with higher impact factors in a field (Hota et al., 2020). Co-citation analysis, on the other hand, represents a method used to map in detail the relationships among the basic ideas for a particular scientific field (Fernandes et al., 2017). Co-citation analysis is used to compare many studies citing certain pairs of studies and help reveal the similarities and differences between documents (Köseoglu et al., 2015(Köseoglu et al., , 2016. ...
The purpose of this study is to map knowledge management (KM) research in the field of hospitality and to develop an agenda for future research. This research has adopted a two-stage methodological approach that includes bibliometric analysis and systematic literature review. First, a bibliometric analysis was performed, which included citation and co-citation analyses, and then a systematic literature review was conducted. The findings revealed that KM research has not made sufficient progress and that there are still many research gaps. Finally, potential research questions have been developed for future research. Considering that the use of KM in the context of hospitality has become increasingly important in recent years, this paper is expected to contribute to the literature and practitioners.
... This method helps to focus researchers on the scientific and theoretical surveying of particular fields (Crossan and Apaydin, 2010) and improving their quality (Feliu and Botero, 2016). To identify articles on the subject analysed and, in keeping with previous studies (Fernandes et al., 2017), we carried out a search of the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases in November 2021. ...
Purpose
Adopting the research concept of socioemotional wealth (SEW) as applied to family firm leaders, this study aims to analyse the literature on succession and corporate governance processes in family firms in keeping with this still developing concept and thereby not only contributing to advancing knowledge on this field but also proposing a conceptual model of analysis and a future research agenda.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors carried out a review and systematisation of the literature according to its different thematic groups through recourse to VOSviewer software and content analysis to establish a systematised and integrated structure of the reference literature based on a sample of 218 studies published and indexed on the Web of Science and SCOPUS databases between 2010 and 2021.
Findings
The results portray five leading clusters, specifically, (1) SEW and family firm performance; (2) SEW and the focus on leadership as a precursor to succession; (3) family firms, SEW and corporate social governance; (4) family firm innovation and performance; and (5) family ownership and management. The authors then put forward a conceptual model of analysis both to better integrate these topics and as a proposition for application in future research projects.
Originality/value
The study provides a new and solid systematisation of the literature and supports the argument that family firms concentrating on developing the leader's SEW increase the probability of structuring a successful succession process as well as the likelihood of achieving higher quality corporate governance.
... As we presented in our theoretical justification section, despite the notion of dynamic capacities having received fairly widespread application in the research field, Wernerfelt, (1984) and Williamson (1999) Tushman, 2008; Teece, 2007). Nevertheless, dynamic capacities do hold major influence over the international performance levels of companies (Collis, 1991;Eisenhardt & Martin, 2000;Gassmann & Keupp, 2007;Wilden, Gudergan, Nielsen, & Lings, 2013 With dynamic capacities such a vast field of study, it is also important to consider to what extent we might systematise their study as suggested by Fernandes et al. (2017) within the scope of generating explanatory theories able to underpin this field of study. There are various studies (Zahra, 2005;Coviello, 2006, Ferreira, Fernandes, & Peris-Ortiz, 2018 maintaining that company characteristics do impact on their level of international performance. ...
Abstract
The mission of e-Government is to provide better, more efficient, and faster public services from central and local public administration to citizens and businesses.
In recent years, Kosovo has significantly increased the application of e-Government, which transforms the activities provided by Public Administration and had a great impact on citizens and businesses by making everyday procedures easier and more efficient.
E-Government brings great benefits to society. Benefits can be economic and social, including modernization of administration, education, health, justice, security, business, and trade development, increase in the budget, democracy, culture, scientific research, etc.
Within the modernization of the public administration through the extensive use of the Information and Technology Infrastructure the e-Government’s objective is to create a new dynamic relationship between Kosovo’s public administration, citizens, and businesses. By analyzing the current situation from the view of citizens and businesses, this paper will present the level and types of services offered by the government portal e-Kosova.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of E-Government implementation on Kosovo institutions to citizens and the business community. In this paper, we intend to introduce the current situation and present the level of implementation of e-Government by analyzing results from the survey conducted by the Regional Cooperation Council 2021 edition of the Balkan Barometer for citizen and business perceptions in Western Balkan Countries.
During the short period of implementation, the e-Government in Kosovo faced certain challenges such Covid-19 pandemic, which will be the subject of elaboration in this paper.
Keywords: E-Government, Public Administration, e-Kosova, e-Government services.
... Following the RBV theory, the performance of capabilities is needed to differentiate from competitors and offer value to export markets. The literature suggests four particular types of capabilities influencing the export performance of SMEs: operational, informational, product-development, and relationship-building capabilities (e.g., Piercy et al., 1997;Kaleka, 2002;Morgan et al., 2004;Fernandes et al., 2017;Ramon-Jeronimo et al., 2019;Aghazadeh et al., 2022). We consider these four capabilities together as export capabilities. ...
While previous studies have explored multiple constraints affecting women exporters, the effects of intimate partner violence against women (IPVAW) are still unexplored in the literature. Thus, this study aims to probe first whether women owners of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in export markets experience IPVAW. Secondly, it aims to explore the effect of IPVAW on their relationship quality with business partners, mediated by the performance of export capabilities. Using a structured questionnaire applied through personal interviews, we surveyed 57 female owners of exporting MSEs in Peru. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test the model. The preliminary findings indicate that women exporters who experience IPVAW are more likely to face problems performing export capabilities. In turn, these performance problems seem to affect the quality of their relationships with importers and suppliers. Moreover, there is a direct relationship between IPVAW and problems in performing export capabilities and between issues performing capabilities and the relationship quality. Our theoretical contribution is a conceptual model that proposes the variable “Problems Performing Capabilities” as a mediator to measure the effects of IPVAW on exporting MSEs owned by women. Our findings urge policymakers and trade organizations boosting women-owned export enterprises to include initiatives that address and prevent IPVAW in their export promotion programs.
... Dynamic capabilities are skills that companies use, which arise from experiences to integrate, build, and reconfigure their businesses (Ardolino et al., 2018;Teece et al., 1997). Initially dynamic capabilities, and currently, digital capabilities, can be determinants in defining the competitive advantages of an organization; thus, they can assist managers in obtaining profits in competitive and rapidly changing markets (Fernandes et al., 2017). ...
O objetivo é mapear as capacidades digitais aplicáveis ao setor da educação. O método utilizado é revisão sistemática de literatura do tipo descritiva com análise bibliométrica. Os dados foram coletados nas bases Web of Science e Scopus, considerando o período de 1973 a 2021. Para sistematizar a base de dados foi empregado o software Vosviewer. A amostra selecionada é de 69 artigos. Os resultados mostram cinco competências digitais aplicáveis ao setor educacional: capacidade de aprimoramento digital; capacidade de desenvolver objeto de aprendizagem; capacidade de acessibilidade digital; capacidade de desenvolver plataformas dominantes e capacidade de digitalização dos processos. O estudo contribui para teoria em dois momentos, primeiro ao indicar os principais estudos sobre capacidades digitais aplicáveis ao setor educacional e segundo o avanço na ciência na elaboração de agenda de futuras pesquisas. Com relação à contribuição gerencial, as capacidades mapeadas podem ser utilizadas por gestores de instituições de ensino e contribuir para o melhor desempenho na transformação dos processos digitais das empresas deste setor.
... In conjunction with the impressive overall growth in business research, JOM has increased its publication frequency (Van Fleet & Bedeian, 2016). Not only has an increase in the frequency of volumes, number of articles published per volume, and length of articles, but JOM has also transformed from a regional journal to a global outlet of broader impactful business research scholarship originating worldwide (Allen, 2018;Fernandes et al., 2017;Rupp, 2015). ...
The knowledge domain of business research has grown tremendously over the last five decades. This study investigates the leading trends in the intellectual structure of the Journal of Management (JOM) during the 1975-2019 timeframe. It analyses the most frequent authors, institutions, countries, citation performance, and emerging themes of JOM. In so doing, this article maps co-citation, co-authorship, and co-occurrence networks by employing VOSviewer software. The findings indicate that trends in the number of publications and several indicators of the impact of research published in JOM are encouraging. The results show a surge in the dispersal of the authors across the world, especially from the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and Australia. Likewise, multi-authored publications have witnessed robust growth. The burst detection analysis performed employing CiteSpace software indicates that the recent contribution of JOM is mainly in strengthening a new perspective in the field of well-being, motivation, abusive supervision, agency theory, and social network.
... Although some may argue the manipulation of the number of citations in research studies (Chakraborty et al., 2022), it still a relatively fair and widely acceptable indicator to determine the impact of research items, for example journal impact factors managed by Clarivate. To make use of the number of citations, several variants, such as average citation threshold , top 25 studies in the field (Fernandes et al., 2017), centrality in the citation network , and the stepwise detection approach have been developed. However, identification of influential research studies in a specific domain is not a simple task, as there is no single threshold/indicator to fit all. ...
In the era of industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI) may potentially be used to provide reasoning and decision support on engineering and technical challenges. The role of AI in industrial design, which is the practice of improving the function, value and aesthetics of products to optimise customer satisfaction, has not yet been extensively explored. To effectively synthesise the existing literature, an unsupervised learning-enabled review methodology is proposed in this study. Important journals and articles are identified by using k-means clustering, and the relevant articles are analysed by using co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence analyses. Six clusters of the body of knowledge are then extracted, and naming of the clusters is assisted by using document summarisation and evaluation. Consequently, six intellectual cores related to AI in industrial design are formulated: (i) supply chain perspectives on product design and innovation, (ii) manufacturability and performance of new product development, (iii) intelligent tools and systems for industrial design and engineering, (iv) applied intelligence for product and service innovation, (v) industry 4.0 technologies for design and manufacturing, and (vi) blockchain-enabled artificial intelligence in industry 4.0. Future research trends on sustainable design, trust in AI, and emerging technology integration towards the next-generation AI in industrial design are discussed.
... In this paper, bibliometric methods and visualization tools have been used to investigate an overview of AI domain. These have been used to explore current status of scientific fields, evaluate the impact of scholars, describe the collaboration of institutions [12], and identify the evolution trajectory of publications over time [26]. The large amounts of scholarly data make it possible to generate bibliometric networks such as co-citation networks, co-occurrence networks, coupling networks, and direct citation networks for further analyses. ...
Artificial intelligence (AI), a general term that implies the imitation of information process of intelligent behavior and sense with minimal intervention, is one of the most promising research areas and has received a considerable attention with coexisting pros and cons. In order to understand the research status quo and future trends on AI technology, this work uses bibliometric analysis method to obtain this objective. By analyzing the datasets including journal article data collected from Web of Science (WOS), conference paper data retrieved from Scopus and the patent data extracted from Derwent Innovations Index (DII) in the period of 2000-2019, we primarily provide a comprehensive overview to better understand the research status of AI. Bibliometric analysis results can also shed light on the evolution and trends in AI.
... This ultimately leads to the necessity of capabilities enabling organizations to be capable to adapt to changing circumstances (Berkowitz, 2018) and to form ambidextrous structures that allow exploration and exploitation to coexist (Chang et al., 2012). Knowledge management is well recognized as an organizational capability (Gold, Malhotra, & Segars, 2001) and is seen as a lever to raise the potential for competitive advantages (Fernandes et al., 2017). Capabilities in the Organizational Design theme facilitate the distribution of knowledge in the organization and the value network to ensure its appropriate use (Chen & Huang, 2009). ...
As digital transformation is changing entire industries, organizations are struggling to keep up with these changes. Scholars are viewing organizational capabilities as a central mean for organizations to master digital transformation. Based on a comprehensive literature review, this study identifies a broad set of relevant organizational capabilities and introduces a conceptual framework in which organizational capabilities are clustered into seven relevant themes for managing digital transformation. These capabilities are then embedded in the logic of the dynamic capability theory, highlighting the development of organizational capabilities throughout the digital transformation process. The results reveal that a differentiated perspective on the digital transformation process is beneficial to account for changing needs of organizational capabilities during the transformation process. Just as organizations themselves change during the process, various capabilities at different time points are needed to support and enable organizations during digital transformation. The developed conceptual framework gives organizations guidance for the development of organizational capabilities throughout the digital transformation process.
... This type of analysis demonstrates the interaction within and between clusters based on keywords in each subject area. A cluster represents a collection of closely related elements (topics) that are homogeneous [25]. In this study, each constructed network represented a subject area (defined by Scopus classification). ...
The growth of the Higher Education and Science (HES) sector is positively associated with
its research productivity and has a high potential in emerging countries. To explore such research productivity, this study offers a comprehensive analysis of the scientific literature from Kazakhstan. Our methods included descriptive analysis, network analysis, and author-based productivity analysis (by Lotka’s law) of 23,371 articles from Scopus, published during 1991–2020, and across 25 subject areas. The results of the descriptive analysis showed a substantial increase in the number of and citations to the literature since 2011 in almost all subject areas. However, the network analysis found that research in natural sciences was more developed in topical relationships and international collaborations than research in arts and humanities, social, and medical sciences. The Lotka’s law application revealed that the overall scientific literature in Kazakhstan did not reach its necessary stage of maturity. Additionally, some subject areas demonstrated greater contribution to the overall knowledge base, while others were less productive or lagging in their development. Our findings, useful for researchers and policymakers in emerging countries, can be exemplary in understanding the results of policy reforms aimed to improve the HES sector in emerging countries.
... Co-citation analysis deals with how output references are interconnected where they have been considered together (Fernandes et al., 2017) to highlight any similarities or differences in the content of the two documents (Koseoglu et al., 2015). These reference-based relationships generate networks depicting the positions of the references in the field (Serrat, 2017). ...
Studies related to hospitality and tourism (H&T) performance measurement has expanded and matured, leading to diversity in the themes and topics of papers published on the subject. Though many studies have highlighted the trends, clusters, and topics, the present paper is the first known academic article attempting to explore the theoretical pillars of this research stream. Using a database with 56,163 citations, the authors categorized the empirical evidence into four different time periods and an overall representation. Consequently, this paper adopts a co-citation approach to explore the number of articles published in the field of hotel performance studies. Finally, using the VOSviewer software program, this study identifies the most popular cross-cited and citing journals and authors. Though the study focuses only on the theoretical pillars identified using co-citations and network cluster analysis, revealing the hidden part of the iceberg (co-citation), contributes to the literature on H&T performance measurement. Keywords: co-citation analysis, network cluster analysis, performance measurement, VOSviewer software program, hospitality and tourism.
... In other words, these capabilities can improve the firm competitive advantage and performance in a industry. But these subjects have been remains unclear (Baia and Ferreira, 2019;Fernandes et al., 2017). ...
... In other words, these capabilities can improve the firm competitive advantage and performance in a industry. But these subjects have been remains unclear (Baia and Ferreira, 2019;Fernandes et al., 2017). ...
Background
After China entered the stage of normalized epidemic prevention and control, county-level government became the leading force and responsible body for prevention and control. In some counties, the epidemic was initially sporadic but later evolved into large-scale transmission. This situation posed a severe challenge to their dynamic capabilities. The dynamic capacity of county-level government largely determines the effectiveness of dealing with large-scale epidemics.
Methods
This study selected three counties with a large-scale outbreak of COVID-19 in 2022 as samples for multi-case analysis, and used insight ability, integration ability, learning ability and innovation ability as dimensions for comparative analysis. Data and information were collected from the official websites of these three county-level governments using the octopus collector.
Results
The dynamic capabilities of county-level government are related to the results of large-scale epidemic prevention and control. This topic has been less explored in existing research. Compared to Si County and Linshui County, Jiutai District clearly lacks dynamic capabilities in large-scale epidemic prevention and control. The different abilities of county-level government play different roles in epidemic prevention and control.
Conclusion
County-level government are at the weakest stress point in the hierarchical structure of China's power system. They are at the forefront of public crisis management playing an important role, which further increase their pressure. Enhancing the dynamic capabilities of county-level government can greatly help them effectively respond to crises and alleviate their vulnerability.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of the literature on technology transfer and culture, identifying the main contents of the current body of knowledge encompassing culture and technology transfer (TT), thus contributing to a better understanding of the relationship between TT and culture based on bibliometric and multivariate statistical analyses of the relevant body of literature.
Design/methodology/approach
Data for this study were collected from the Web of Science (WoS) Core Collection database. Based on a bibliometric analysis and in-depth empirical review of major TT subjects, supported by multivariate statistical analyses, over 200 articles were systematically reviewed. The use of these methods decreases biases since it adds rigor to the subjective evaluation of the relevant literature base.
Findings
The exploratory analysis of the articles shows that first, culture is an important topic for TT in the literature; second, the publication data demonstrate a great dynamism regarding the different contexts in which culture is covered in the TT literature and third, in the last couple of years the interest of stimulating a TT culture in the context of universities has continuously grown.
Research limitations/implications
This study focuses on culture in the context of TT and identifies the main contents of the body of knowledge in the area. Based on this first insight, obtained through more detailed bibliometric and multivariate analyses, it is now important to develop and validate a theory on TT culture, emphasizing the dimensions of organizational culture, entrepreneurial culture and a culture of openness that fosters economic and societal spillovers, and to link those dimensions to the performance of TT activities.
Practical implications
From the practical point of view, managers in companies and universities should be aware of the importance of identifying those dimensions of culture that contribute most to the success of their TT activities.
Originality/value
Despite several literature reviews on the TT topic, no studies focusing specifically on culture in the context of TT have been developed. Therefore, given the multifaceted nature of the research field, this study aims to expand and to deepen the analysis of the TT literature by focusing on culture as an important and commonly cited element influencing TT performance.
Purpose
In the rapidly evolving digital economy, businesses face formidable pressures to maintain their competitive standing, prompting a surge of interest in the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation (DT). This study aims to assess the impact of AI technologies on corporate DT by scrutinizing 3,602 firm-year observations listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges. The research delves into the extent to which investments in AI drive DT, while also investigating how this relationship varies based on firms' ownership structure.
Design/methodology/approach
To explore the influence of AI technologies on corporate DT, the research employs robust quantitative methodologies. Notably, the study employs multiple validation techniques, including two-stage least squares (2SLS), propensity score matching and an instrumental variable approach, to ensure the credibility of its primary findings.
Findings
The investigation provides clear evidence that AI technologies can accelerate the pace of corporate DT. Firms strategically investing in AI technologies experience faster DT enabled by the automation of operational processes and enhanced data-driven decision-making abilities conferred by AI. Our findings confirm that AI integration has a significant positive impact in propelling DT across the firms studied. Interestingly, the study uncovers a significant divergence in the impact of AI on DT, contingent upon firms' ownership structure. State-owned enterprises (SOEs) exhibit a lesser degree of DT following AI integration compared to privately owned non-SOEs.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the burgeoning literature at the nexus of AI and DT by offering empirical evidence of the nexus between AI technologies and corporate DT. The investigation’s examination of the nuanced relationship between AI implementation, ownership structure and DT outcomes provides novel insights into the implications of AI in the diverse business contexts. Moreover, the research underscores the policy significance of supporting SOEs in their DT endeavors to prevent their potential lag in the digital economy. Overall, this study accentuates the imperative for businesses to strategically embrace AI technologies as a means to bolster their competitive edge in the contemporary digital landscape.
O artigo evidencia o processo corrente de transformação digital em finanças com a utilização em novos modelos de negócios ao explorar as possíveis contribuições da Visão Baseada em Recursos e das Capacidades Dinâmicas nesse campo organizacional. Para tanto, verificou-se que os recursos tecnológicos utilizados na transformação digital em finanças não constituem fonte de vantagem sustentável. As capacidades dinâmicas organizacionais, por sua vez, combinam-se de forma eficiente em incumbentes e em grandes empresas de tecnologia que demandam capacidade de inovação típicas de fintechs em um processo contínuo e dinâmico, ao passo que as empresas não tradicionais preferem as parcerias pontuais.
Purpose
This study proposed the integrative model of dynamic dominant logic (DL) with exploitation (EP) and exploration (ER) as a pattern of actions in endeavoring firm performance (FP). This study also intended to explain the multiple patterns of DL in creating technical and evolutionary fitness simultaneously.
Design/methodology/approach
This study used a cross-sectional quantitative analysis of the Indonesian commercial banking population facing digital transformation and was analyzed using covariance-based structural equation modeling through parceling.
Findings
The model confirmed that DL positively affects EP and ER. It also revealed that DL indirectly impacts FP through EP, indicating changes in the traditional banking business through the strong acceptance of “new realities” in adapting to the rapid growth of technology. Hence, this study discovered that during the recent banking digital transformation, the beneficial inertia of the technical pattern of action might lose effectiveness in creating superior performance.
Practical implications
DL is vital in locking short-term performance while maintaining long-term performance opportunities through EP and ER to promote digital transformation. Accordingly, it induced banks to adopt new technology for value creation and fortifying competitive advantage.
Originality/value
This study provided a theory about how DL links the firm's decision-making process by promoting multiple patterns of action in achieving technical and evolutionary fitness. It highlighted the DL as a resource conceptualization that promotes resource development through EP and ER as microfoundation of dynamic capabilities during the tension of institutionalization and digital transformation.
In the new manufacturing area, the Chinese textile industry is facing the opportunities and challenges under the sustainable development model and advanced manufacturing technology. It is urgent to use digital technology to realize digital transformation. In this process, digital dynamic capability and digital innovation are significant for textile firms to achieve digital transformation performance. Drawing on the data from 367 questionnaires of Chinese textile firms, we apply multiple regression to examine how a firm's digital transformation is affected by adopting digital technology. A conceptual model based on framework of resource–capability–performance is developed to examine how adoption of digital technology, digital dynamic capability, and digital innovation orientation affects a firm's digital transformation performance. The results indicate that the positive relationship between digital technology adoption and digital transformation performance is less significant; this path is fully mediated through digital dynamic capability. Digital innovation orientation has a positive moderating effect and that the efficiency digital innovation has the most significant moderating effect among all digital innovation types. In addition, compared with textile firms in the low level of digital technology adoption, the firms in the high-level group show a significant positive relationship between digital technology adoption and digital transformation performance. These findings confirm the validity of the model and contribute to existing literature on technology efforts in firms and provide guidelines to help managers implement informed decisions about digital transformation.
Bu araştırma 1991-2021 arasında dinamik yeteneklerin entelektüel yapısını incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Araştırmanın verileri Web of Science veri tabanındaki veri süzme kriterleri çerçevesinde ulaşılan 7.792 çalışmadan oluşmaktadır. Veriler, VOSviewer yazılımıyla analiz edilmiş ve araştırmada bibliyometrik analiz tekniklerinden ortak kelime analizi kullanılmıştır. Bulgular 1991-2001 arasında dinamik yetenekler araştırmalarına kaynak temelli görüş, kaynaklar, yetenekler, rekabet avantajı ve inovasyon kavramlarının hâkim olduğunu göstermektedir. 2002-2011 arasında ise dinamik yetenekler, kaynak temelli görüş, rekabet avantajı, performans, bilgi temelli görüş, bilgi yönetimi, örgütsel öğrenme, stratejik ittifaklar, inovasyon ve özümseme kapasitesi gibi kavramlar hâkim duruma gelmiştir. Son olarak 2012-2021 arasında ise dinamik yetenekler, kaynak temelli görüş, bilgi yönetimi, örgütsel çift yeteneklilik, araştırmacı ve fırsatçı yenilikler, rekabet avantajı, açık inovasyon, özümseme kapasitesi, firma performansı, girişimcilik, girişimsel yönelim, iş modeli, iş modeli inovasyonu, örgütsel öğrenme, uluslararasılaşma, pazarlama yeteneği, ittifaklar, tedarik zinciri yönetimi, büyük veri, dijitalizasyon, dijital dönüşüm, örgütsel çeviklik ve esneklik, mikro temeller, liderlik ve yönetişim kavramları öne çıkmıştır. Bu bulgular temelinde çalışma, gelecek araştırma önerileriyle tamamlanmıştır.
There are a range of studies on Dynamic Capabilities (DC) even though the knowledge existing on their measuring/operational implementation remains incipient, with this shortcoming correspondingly identified in the literature. This study's core objective is to evaluate the empirical research carried out on DC, intending to identify and measure and suggest future study recommendations.
Methodologically, the study incorporates a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) through a survey of the ISI/Web of Science database, which incorporated and analysed 31 articles out of a total of 137 published through to the end of 2017.
The results point to three major dimensions to DC: i) Company performance; ii) Innovation performance; and iii) Human resource management. Our DC measurement model may be operationally implemented with its set of indicators and scales designed to provide support for future DC studies.
Entrepreneurship and strategy have common interests of research and they are close fields of studies; however, it is important to know the boundaries of each research field to preserve the identity of each discipline, as well as to advance in the comprehension of the strategic entrepreneurship domain. This research aims to identify common and distinct themes between entrepreneurship and strategy to understand the boundaries of each discipline, the interfaces between them, as well as contribute to the discussion of the strategic entrepreneurship concept. A scoping literature review was carried out about bibliometric studies on entrepreneurship, strategy, and entrepreneurship and strategy together. From 62 bibliometric studies in entrepreneurship, 18 in strategy, and 22 in entrepreneurship and strategy, a thematic analysis was performed. Entrepreneurship bibliometric resulted in 25 themes, strategy in 9 themes, and 12 in entrepreneurship and strategy together. This research presents a theoretical contribution to the field of research in entrepreneurship, strategy, and strategic entrepreneurship. Comparing the bibliometric studies in each field evidenced what are the themes focused on each discipline. To the concept of strategic entrepreneurship, results of this research contribute to advance in the comprehension of what can be entrepreneurship and what can be strategy in the concept, as the gap of studies. Furthermore, this study provides inputs about contexts of study to strategic entrepreneurship, such as familiar, social, and sustainable ventures.
Keywords:
strategy; entrepreneurship; bibliometric; strategic entrepreneurship
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine how the mediating effect of strategic management impacts the relationship between dynamic capabilities and firm performance concerning environmental munificence in 3rd party logistics (3PL) firms operating in Turkey.
Design/methodology/approach
Variance-based structural equation modeling algorithm and correlation analysis were applied to survey data obtained from ( n = 482) a top manager from 3PL companies.
Findings
Results revealed that dynamic capabilities were a strong predictor for organizational performance, environmental munificence also emerges as a key predictor for dynamic capabilities and strategic management, and strategic management fully mediates the link between dynamic capabilities and organizational performance, suggesting that they function as substitutes in affecting performance outcomes.
Research limitations/implications
This paper provides empirical evidence of the relationship between the dynamic capability adaptation, strategic management, environment and performance of 3PL firms. As a limitation, the results are based on survey research with a limited sample size.
Practical implications
Organizations should manage not only dynamism but also the scarcity of environmental resources found to be significant on both dynamic capabilities and strategic management. Additionally, in the logistics sector, managers should focus on the big picture while they empower and lead capable followers to transform this strategic view into operational-level changes.
Originality/value
Depending on the relationships between constructs, studying environmental munificence is a different topic than the dynamic environment concept in the effectiveness of dynamic capabilities of 3PL firms. As well as dynamic capabilities at the level of individual and strategic management relationship on organization performance are confirmed.
Purpose
The existing research rarely explains the role of dynamic capabilities in the creation of value co-creation behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to explore how dynamic capabilities play a role in avoiding value co-creation traps and generating new value co-creation behaviors.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper collects rich interview and archival data from two Chinese manufacturing companies to examine value co-creation in digital servitization by the case study.
Findings
The paper discovers the value co-creation traps that enterprises face in digital servitization and analyzes the important role of resource and technology integration capabilities in avoiding these traps. Also, the research explores how network capability affects the generation of new value co-creation behaviors.
Originality/value
This paper develops a framework for dynamic capabilities to avoid value co-creation traps and generate new value co-creation behaviors.
Purpose
The findings of this paper throw light on the focal research areas within RFID in the supply chain, which serves as an effective guideline for future research in this area. This research, therefore, contributes to filling the gap by carrying out an SLR of contemporary research studies in the area of RFID applications in supply chains. To date, SLR augmented with BA has not been used to study the developments in RFID applications in supply chains.
Design/methodology/approach
We analyze 556 articles from years 2001 to date using Systematic Literature Review (SLR). Contemporary bibliometric analysis (BA) tools are utilized. First, an exploratory analysis is carried, out revealing influential authors, sources, regions, among other key aspects. Second, a co-citation work analysis is utilized to understand the conceptual structure of the literature, followed by a dynamic co-citation network to reveal the evolution of the field. This is followed by a multivariate analysis is performed on top-100 cited papers, and k-means clustering is carried out to find optimal groups and identify research themes. The influential themes are then pointed out using factor analysis.
Findings
An exploratory analysis is carried out using BA tools to provide insights into factors such as influential authors, production countries, top-cited papers and frequent keywords. Visualization of bibliographical data using co-citation network analysis and keyword co-occurrence analysis assisted in understanding the groups (communities) of research themes. We employed k-means clustering and factor analysis methods to further develop these insights. A historiographical direct citation analysis also unveils potential research directions. We observe that RFID applications in the supply chain are likely to benefit from the Internet of Things and blockchain Technology along with the other machine learning and visualization approaches.
Originality/value
Although several researchers have researched RFID literature in relation to supply chains, these reviews are often conducted in the traditional manner where the author(s) select paper based on their area of expertise, interest and experience. Limitation of such reviews includes authors’ selection bias of studies to be included and limited or no use of advanced BA tools for analysis. This study fills this research gap by conducting an SLR of RFID in supply chains to identify important research trends in this field through the use of advanced BA tools.
O estudo das capacidades dinâmicas é uma das áreas de pesquisas mais atuantes e influentes na Administração Estratégica. No entanto, o conceito de capacidades dinâmicas ainda não é bem definido na literatura, pois existe um debate entre autores seminais dessa literatura, o que dificulta o entendimento desse conceito. De um lado desse debate, há os estudos fundamentados na Economia Evolucionária. Do outro lado do debate, há as pesquisas fundamentadas em outras teorias das ciências sociais e humanas. Desse modo, a presente revisão da literatura buscou traçar a evolução da teorização do conceito de capacidades para evidenciar que essas duas linhas teóricas convergiram ao longo do tempo, devido à necessidade de aprimorar o poder de explicação do conceito de capacidades dinâmicas.
Purpose
This paper aims to explore a new causal link between learning, market and entrepreneurial orientations and firms' performance by introducing dynamic capabilities and competitive advantages as mediator variables.
Design/methodology/approach
The mediating role of dynamic capabilities and competitive advantages is tested using a sample of 1,190 Portuguese firms, and structural equation models.
Findings
It is shown that dynamic capabilities mediate the relationship between the three orientations–learning, market and entrepreneurial–and competitive advantages of differentiation and cost leadership, and both competitive advantages lead to firm's performance. It is also shown that learning orientation is an antecedent of market orientation and entrepreneurial orientation.
Practical implications
This research shows that firm's performance depends on the capacity of firms to learn, innovate, be proactive, take risks and collect the best market data. Indeed, by optimizing the internal management and knowledge dissemination, firms will develop a set of capabilities and competitive advantages that lead to an appropriate response to market challenges.
Originality/value
This study tests the relationship between strategic orientations and firm's performance by taking the mediating effects of dynamic capabilities and competitive advantages into account. This research was conducted in Portugal.
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to conduct a structured literature review using advanced bibliometric tools to understand the existing knowledge base, understand the trends in omni-channel (OC) research and identify emerging research topics.
Design/methodology/approach
More than 500 articles selected through a keyword combination search from reputed databases of peer-reviewed academic sources from period 2009–19 are analyzed for the purposes of this study. The study first presents an exploratory analysis to determine influential authors, sources and regions, among other key aspects. Second, several network analyses including co-citation and dynamic co-citation network analyses are conducted to identify themes. These allow identifying research clusters and emerging research topics algorithmically. Both centrality and modularity-based clustering are employed. A content analysis of the most influential groups within OC literature for each cluster is included.
Findings
The findings of this paper make unique contributions by using advanced tools from network analysis along with the standard bibliometric analysis tools to explore the current status of OC research, identify existing themes and the guidance for potential areas of future research interest in OC.
Practical implications
This research provides a comprehensive view of the range of topics of importance that have been discussed in the literature of OC management. These research trends can serve as a quick guide to researchers and practitioners to improve decision making and also develop strategies.
Originality/value
The paper employs advanced tools for the first time to review the literature of OC retailing. The sophisticated tools include co-citation and dynamic co-citation network analysis.
At what level is new value created, or, put differently, what is the locus of knowledge? While knowledge and capabilities-based researchers argue that the locus of new value and knowledge lies at the firm level, we challenge this conceptualization and theoretically build toward more individualist foundations. We explicate the underlying philosophical assumptions of extant knowledge and capabilities-based work and discuss attributional problems. Nested (individual-level. a priori) heterogeneity may provide a better explanation of collective heterogeneity.
We integrate perspectives from the literature on contingency, dynamic capabilities, and the natural resource-based view of the firm to propose how dimensions of the general competitive environment of a business will influence the development of a dynamic, proactive corporate strategy for managing the business-natural environment interface. We also explain how certain characteristics of the general business environment-uncertainty, complexity, and munificence-moderate the relationship between the dynamic capability of a proactive environmental strategy and competitive advantage. We conclude with a discussion of implications for research and practice.
In hypercompetitive environments, the established paradigms of sustainability of competitive advantage and stability of organizational form may have limited applicability. Using an in-depth case analysis of the firms Yahoo! and Excite, this study examines how the organizational form, function, and competitive advantage of these firms dynamically coevolved. The study introduces the concept of continuous morphing to describe the comprehensive ongoing transformations through which the focal firms sought to regenerate their transient competitive advantage on the Internet.
The aim of dynamic capabilities research is ambitious: to understand how firmscan sustain a competitive advantage by responding to and creating environmen-tal change (Teece, 2007). As one of the most central and difficult questionswithin the strategy domain, this might well be characterized as the Holy Grailof strategic management. The topical domain of dynamic capabilities, in conse-quence, is as broad and as complex as any in the field. It spans the domains ofstrategy process and content, and involves multiple levels of analysis, from man-agerial decision-processes, to organizational routines, to competitive inter-actions and environmental change. The complexity of the topic is matched,fittingly, by the complexity of the theoretical underpinnings. Undoubtedly, thishas generated some confusion. It is therefore not surprising that the critique ofArend and Bromiley (A&B) in the preceding essay reflects some of this confu-sion. Here, we address this by clarifying the dynamic capabilities concept, inrelation to its development and the challenges faced.We first survey the development path of dynamic capabilities research, anddiscuss the different theoretical bases of this emerging area of scholarship. Thenwe clarify issues regarding the definition of dynamic capabilities and discuss thelink between dynamic capabilities and firm performance. As part of our analy-sis, we address the two main conclusions of A&B regarding dynamic capabil-ities research. The first is that we should abandon the dynamic capabilitiesapproach if it does not ‘quickly develop a theoretical foundation’. The second isthat regardless of the pace of theory development, we should replace theseefforts with ‘work on strategic change tied to fuller theories of strategic organ-ization’. In what follows, we explain why these conclusions are premature andunwarranted. We also address other issues raised by A&B, focusing on the mainissues raised in the body of their commentary.
Organizational ambidexterity, defined as an organization's ability to be aligned and efficient in its management of today's business demands while simultaneously being adaptive to changes in the environment, has gained increasing interest in recent years. In this article, the authors review various literature streams to develop a comprehensive model that covers research into the antecedents, moderators, and outcomes of organizational ambidexterity. They indicate gaps within and across different research domains and point to important avenues for future research.
I consider the implications for research and practice in strategic human resource management (SHRM) of a complex, living-systems extension of the resource-based view (RBV). I do so by demonstrating that concepts from complexity align well with the RBV, and I extend the RBV by considering critical but difficult aspects commonly identified in the RBV strategy literature. An integrated framework for SHRM is pre- sented, allowing an application of complexity principles at the appropriate level of abstraction in the HR system.
While a firm’s ability to jointly pursue both an exploitative and exploratory orientation has been posited as having positive performance effects, little is currently known about the antecedents and consequences of such ambidexterity in small-to medium-sized firms (SMEs). To that end, this study focuses on the pivotal role of top management team (TMT) behavioral integration in facilitating the processing of disparate demands essential to attaining ambidexterity in SMEs. Then, to address the bottom-line importance of an ambidextrous orientation, the study hypothesizes its association with relative firm performance. Multisource survey data, including CEOs and TMT members from 139 SMEs, provide support for both hypotheses.
An expanded paradigm is needed to explain how competitive advantage is gained and held. Firms resorting to 'resource-based strategy' attempt to accumulate valuable technology assets and employ an aggressive intellectual property stance. However, winners in the global marketplace have been firms demonstrating timely responsiveness and rapid and flexible product innovation, along with the management capability to effectively coordinate and redeploy internal and external competences. This source of competitive advantage, 'dynamic capabilities', emphasizes two aspects. First, it refers to the shifting character of the environment; second, it emphasizes the key role of strategic management in appropriately adapting, integrating, and re-configuring internal and external organizational skills, resources, and functional competences toward changing environment. 5 Only recently have researchers begun to focus on the specifics of developing firm-specific capabilities and the manner in which competences are renewed to respond to shifts in the business environment. The dynamic capabilities approach provides a coherent framework to integrate existing conceptual and empirical knowledge, and facilitate prescription. This paper argues that the competitive advan is tage of firms stems from dynamic capabilities rooted in high performance routines operating inside the firm, embedded in the firm's processes, and conditioned by its history. It offers dynamic capabilities as an emerging paradigm of the modern business firm that draws on multiple disciplines and advances, with the help of industry studies in the USA and elsewhere.
We investigated how the knowledge capabilities of industry incumbents affected the generation, development, and performance of "spin-outs" (entrepreneurial ventures of ex-employees). Analyses of 1977-97 data from the disk drive industry supported our hypothesis that incumbents with both strong technological and market pioneering know-how generate fewer spin-outs than firms with strength in only one of these areas. Also, an incumbent's capabilities at the time of a spin-out's founding positively affect the spin-out's knowledge capabilities and its probability of survival.
We focus on the design of an organization's set of boundary-spanning transactions - business model design - and ask how business model design affects the performance of entrepreneurial firms. By extending and integrating theoretical perspectives that inform the study of boundary-spanning organization design, we propose hypotheses about the impact of efficiency-centered and novelty-centered business model design on the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Tb test these hypotheses, we developed and analyzed a unique data set of 190 entrepreneurial firms that were publicly listed on U.S. and European stock exchanges. The empirical results show that novelty-centered business model design matters to the performance of entrepreneurial firms. Our analysis also shows that this positive relationship is remarkably stable across time, even under varying environmental regimes. Additionally, we find indications of potential diseconomies of scope in design; that is, entrepreneurs' attempts to incorporate both efficiency- and novelty-centered design elements into their business models may be counterproductive.
At what level is new value created, or, put differently, what is the locus of knowledge? While knowledge and capabilities-based researchers argue that the locus of new value and knowledge lies at the firm level, we challenge this conceptualization and theoretically build toward more individualist foundations. We explicate the underlying philosophical assumptions of extant knowledge and capabilities-based work and discuss attributional problems. Nested (individual-level, a priori) heterogeneity may provide a better explanation of collective heterogeneity.
T his article identifies gaps in the microfoundations of capabilities research, particularly in work that is based on the framework of evolutionary economics. It argues that such research has focused excessively on the quasi-automatic, routine-based aspects of capability development, and largely neglected the roles played by cognition and organizational hierarchy. By deriving a model of search that jointly considers how routine-based and cognitive logics of action coexist within an organizational hierarchy to affect capability development, this article offers three contributions. First, it delineates the traits of a microfoundational structure for research on capabilities that begins to address these gaps. Second, based on this structure, it highlights previously neglected causal mechanisms that contribute to our understanding of how capabilities develop. The model shows that managers' cognitive representations of their strategic decision problem fundamentally drive organizational search, and therefore the accumulation of capabilities. Furthermore, it shows that the accuracy of the representations a manager chooses might vary according to where she is situated in the organizational hierarchy. This more refined perspective leads to a set of propositions regarding how different hierarchical arrangements influence capability development and organizational performance. Finally, the paper sets an agenda for future research in this area.
We develop a contingency view of process management's influence on both technological Innovation and organizational adaptation. We argue that while process management activities are beneficial for organizations in stable contexts, they are fundamentally inconsistent with all but incremental innovation and change. But dynamic capabilities are rooted In both exploitative and exploratory activities. We argue that process management activities must be buffered from exploratory activities and that ambidextrous organizational forms provide the complex contexts for these inconsistent activities to coexist.
The authors identify the key challenges facing strategic human resource management (SHRM) going forward and discuss several new directions in both the scholarship and practice of SHRM. They focus on a clearer articulation of the “black box” between HR and firm performance, emphasizing the integration of strategy implementation as the central mediating variable in this relationship. There are direct implications for the nature of fit and contingencies in SHRM. They also highlight the significance of a differentiated HR architecture not just across firms but also within firms.
This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and, more generally, the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development, strategic decision making, and alliancing. They are neither vague nor tautological. Although dynamic capabilities are idiosyncratic in their details and path dependent in their emergence, they have significant commonalities across firms (popularly termed ‘best practice’). This suggests that they are more homogeneous, fungible, equifinal, and substitutable than is usually assumed. In moderately dynamic markets, dynamic capabilities resemble the traditional conception of routines. They are detailed, analytic, stable processes with predictable outcomes. In contrast, in high-velocity markets, they are simple, highly experiential and fragile processes with unpredictable outcomes. Finally, well-known learning mechanisms guide the evolution of dynamic capabilities. In moderately dynamic markets, the evolutionary emphasis is on variation. In high-velocity markets, it is on selection. At the level of RBV, we conclude that traditional RBV misidentifies the locus of long-term competitive advantage in dynamic markets, overemphasizes the strategic logic of leverage, and reaches a boundary condition in high-velocity markets. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Strategic management remains a recent field of research that is dynamic and changing with the global business economy. Given the sheer importance of research on this field of business management, this paper aims to conduct a co-citation bibliometric analysis of strategic management research. We map the authors and the most relevant approaches as well as detailing the new theoretical perspectives to strategic management theory. The analysis conducted uses three multivariate statistical analysis techniques in addition to the co-citation matrix to shed light on these issues. By incorporating all the citations that are included in the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index, we analyze co-citation patterns of the strategic management field during the period 1971–2014 and identify six subfields (clusters) that constitute the intellectual structure and investigate their mutual relationships. The main findings of the factor analysis suggest that there is a clear division between strategic entrepreneurship and corporate entrepreneurship. In addition, the concept of strategic behavior affects most strategic management research as evidenced by the co-citation analysis. A debate of future directions on the strategic management literature is discussed, which highlights the importance of combining more of a strategic entrepreneurship perspective based on behavioral intentions to the emerging research.
This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and, more generally, the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development, strategic decision making, and alliancing. They are neither vague nor tautological. Although dynamic capabilities are idiosyncratic in their details and path dependent in their emergence, they have significant commonalities across firms (popularly termed 'best practice'). This suggests that they are more homogeneous, fungible, equifinal and substitutable than is usually assumed. In moderately dynamic markets, dynamic capabilities resemble the traditional conception of routines. They are detailed, analytic stable processes with predictable outcomes. In contrast, in high-velocity markets, they are simple, highly experiential and fragile processes with unpredictable outcomes. Finally, well-known learning mechanisms guide the evolution of dynamic capabilities. In moderately dynamic markets, the evolutionary emphasis is on variation. In high-velocity markets, it is on selection. At the level of REV, we conclude that traditional REV misidentifies the locus of long-term competitive advantage in dynamic markers, overemphasizes the strategic logic of leverage, and reaches a boundary condition in high-velocity markets. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
We develop a contingency view of process management's influence on both technological innovation and organizational adaptation. We argue that while process management activities are beneficial for organizations in stable contexts, they are fundamentally inconsistent with all but incremental innovation and change. But dynamic capabilities are rooted in both exploitative and exploratory activities. We argue that process management activities must be buffered from exploratory activities and that ambidextrous organizational forms provide the complex contexts for these inconsistent activities to coexist.
This special issue deals with the question of how it is that, over time, some firms manage to become successful using their capabilities, while other firms do not. The articles examine the ways in which firm capabilities emerge, develop, and change over time, and the resulting effects an firm performance. Conceptual models and analyses based on empirical research deal with market entry and the evolution of firm capabilities, adaptation and change in capabilities, and heterogeneity of firm capabilities over time. Within these broad themes, specific topics include the role of: pre-entry experience and initial conditions, aspirations and learning, dynamic capabilities, technological change, products and markets, mergers and acquisitions, and managerial cognition. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
This study presents an extensive domain analysis of a discipline - information science - in terms of its authors. Names of those most frequently cited in 12 key journals from 1972 through 1995 were retrieved from Social Scisearch via DIALOG. The top 120 were submitted to author co-citation analyses, yielding automatic classifications relevant to histories of the field. Tables and graphics reveal: (1) The disciplinary and institutional affiliations of contributors to information science; (2) the specialty structure of the discipline over 24 years; (3) authors' memberships in 1 or more specialties; (4) inertia and change in authors' positions on 2-dimensional subject maps over 3 8-year subperiods, 1972-1979, 1980-1987, 1988-1995; (5) the 2 major subdisciplines of information science and their evolving memberships; (6) "canonical" authors who are in the top 100 in all three subperiods; (7) changes in authors' eminence and influence over the subperiods, as shown by mean co-citation counts; (8) authors with marked changes in their mapped positions over the subperiods; (9) the axes on which authors are mapped, with interpretations; (10) evidence of a paradigm shift in information science in the 1980s; and (11) evidence on the general nature and state of integration of information science. Statistical routines include ALSCAL, INDSCAL, factor analysis, and cluster analysis with SPSS; maps and other graphics were made with DeltaGraph. Theory and methodology are sufficiently detailed to be usable by other researchers.
Zahra and George (2002) suggested a reconceptualization of the absorptive capacity construct in order to reduce ambiguity in empirical studies. A rereading of the seminal Cohen and Levinthal (1990) article in light of current research on learning and innovation directs our attention to serious ambiguities and omissions in Zahra and George's reconceptualization. We suggest a reintroduction of "recognizing the value," an alternative understanding of "transformation," a clarification of "potential absorptive capacity," an elaboration of the impact of socialization mechanisms, an investigation of the role of "power relationships," and an inclusion of feedback loops in a dynamic model of absorptive capacity.
Following the process-based definition of absorptive capacity, this article identifies technological and market knowledge as two critical components of prior knowledge in the organizational learning processes of absorptive capacity. Data from a multi-informant survey conducted in 175 industrial firms show that exploratory, transformative, and exploitative learning have complementary effects on innovation and performance. The results emphasize the multidimensional nature of absorptive capacity, and they help to explain interfirm discrepancies in profiting from external knowledge. Moreover, the findings underscore the importance of dynamic capabilities in contexts characterized by high degrees of technological and market turbulence.
Strategic entrepreneurship (SE) involves simultaneous opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviors and results in superior firm performance. On a relative basis, small, entrepreneurial ventures are effective in identifying opportunities but are less successful in developing competitive advantages needed to appropriate value from those opportunities. In contrast, large, established firms often are relatively more effective in establishing competitive advantages but are less able to identify new opportunities. We argue that SE is a unique, distinctive construct through which firms are able to create wealth. An entrepreneurial mindset, an entrepreneurial culture and entrepreneurial leadership, the strategic management of resources and applying creativity to develop innovations are important dimensions of SE. Herein we develop a model of SE that explains how these dimensions are integrated to create wealth.
How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying this question is a rich debate about whether organizations can adapt—and if so how. One perspective, organizational ecology, presents evidence suggesting that most organizations are largely inert and ultimately fail. A second perspective argues that some firms do learn and adapt to shifting environmental contexts. Recently, this latter view has coalesced around two themes. The first, based on research in strategy suggests that dynamic capabilities, the ability of a firm to reconfigure assets and existing capabilities, explains long-term competitive advantage. The second, based on organizational design, argues that ambidexterity, the ability of a firm to simultaneously explore and exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper, we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest how ambidexterity acts as a dynamic capability. We suggest that efficiency and innovation need not be strategic tradeoffs and highlight the substantive role of senior teams in building dynamic capabilities.
In the new economy, the sustainable competitive advantage of business firms flows from the creation, ownership, protection and use of difficult-to-imitate commercial and industrial knowledge assets. Such assets include tacit and codified know-how, both technical and organisational, whether or not protected by the instruments of intellectual property such as trade secrets, copyrights and patents. Competitive advantage undergirded by such assets can be sustainable to the extent to which it is transferable and useable inside the firm, but difficult for outsiders to access and/or recreate. Knowledge management can be used to describe the panoply of procedures and techniques used to get the most from a firm’s knowledge assets. Information technology can assist knowledge management, but knowledge management involves much more than the astute use of IT tools. In particular, knowledge management requires the development of dynamic capabilities… the ability to sense and then seize opportunities quickly and proficiently. This is especially so in environments characterised by increasing returns, irrespective of the appropriability regime. Companies slow to respond to the new reality will be severely handicapped.
Drawing on the resource-based view of the firm, this study addresses the dynamic capability-generating capacity of market orientation on firm performance. Whereas prior literature has examined environmental turbulence as a contextual condition shaping the market orientation-firm performance relationship, this study takes an internal approach by focusing on existing stocks of resources within the firm while controlling for environmental conditions. A conceptual model is developed that explains how market orientation can be transformed into dynamic capability when complemented by transformational (reconfig-urational) constructs, such as innovativeness. The empirical results support the authors— theory that the effect of market orientation on firm performance is strengthened when market orientation is bundled together with internal complementary resources, such as innovativeness. The authors discuss the findings in the context of varying stages of the product life cycle and at different levels of market development.
Using co-citation analysis, the present study attempts to rationalize and organize the combined alliance and innovation literature in order to determine its intellectual structure (i.e. its shared attributes such as models, theories, methods, findings, and implications), as well as to gain a deeper understanding of the most important research trends. More specifically, our goals are: (1) to delineate the intellectual structure of research on alliance and innovation, as represented in the academic literature; (2) to determine the subfields that constitute the intellectual structure and the relationships, if any, between these subfields; (3) to identify contributions that play a pivotal role in bridging two or more conceptual domains of research; and finally, (4) to map the intellectual structure in a two-dimensional space in order to visualize spatial distances between intellectual themes. Implications for future studies are then drawn.
Theories of knowledge-based competition emphasize the firm's ability both to explore and to exploit knowledge as the source of value creation. We attempt to bring human resource management directly into this forum by introducing a framework of rela- tional archetypes—entrepreneurial and cooperative—that are derived from unique configurations of three dimensions (structural, affective, and cognitive) of social relations within and across firm boundaries. We identify how human resource con- figurations can be linked to the strategic management of these relational archetypes.
This book discusses the development of a theory on the growth of the firm. It is shown that the resources with which a particular firm is accustomed to working will shape the productive services its management is capable of rendering. The experience of management will affect the productive services that all its other resources are capable of rendering. As management tries to make the best use of the resources available, a ‘dynamic’ interacting process occurs which encourages growth but limits the rate of growth.
Organizational boundaries are a central phenomenon, yet despite their significance, research is dominated by transaction cost economics and related exchange-efficiency perspectives. While useful, it is time to engage in a broader view. Our purpose is to provide a deeper understanding of organizational boundaries. First, we develop four boundary conceptions (efficiency, power, competence, and identity) and their distinctive features including organizational and environmental assumptions, unique conception of boundaries, theoretical arguments, empirical validity, contributions, and limitations. Efficiency takes a legal-ownership view of atomistic boundary decisions. In contrast, the power conception emphasizes the sphere of influence of the organization, while competence focuses on the resource portfolio and its related configuration, and identity centers on the often unconscious mind-set by which organizational members understand "who we are." We also indicate relationships, both coevolutionary and synergistic, among the conceptions. Second, we juxtapose these conceptions with the current literature to create a springboard for a renewed research agenda. This agenda includes greater focus on nonefficiency perspectives, relationships (not competition) among boundary conceptions, studies that take the normative implication of theories more seriously, and problem-driven research on contemporary boundary issues such as contract employment and business ecosystems.
The dynamic capabilities view, by addressing the question of how firms can cope with changing environments, has gained increasing attention in the management literature in recent years, not only in the concept’s original domain (strategic management) but also in many other areas within business administration. However, such remarkable growth has been associated with a proliferation of definitions of the focal construct as well as the emergence of a complex and disconnected body of research. In addition, the approach has also received some recurring criticisms. In this study, the author reviews the diverse research streams on dynamic capabilities, identifies main limitations and challenges, suggests a new conceptualization of dynamic capability as an aggregate multidimensional construct, and provides guidance about promising avenues for future research.
This study provides a theoretical framework illustrating how the internal social structure of the organization can mediate the relationship between high-performance work systems (HPWS) and organizational performance. HPWS positively influence the internal social structure by facilitating bridging network ties, generalized norms of reciprocity, shared mental models, role making, and organizational citizenship behavior. Although HPWS are conceptualized as a system of human resource (HR) practices, each category ofHRpractices has a differential relationship with the mediating variables. HPWS lead to (a) financial performance via administrative efficiency and (b) sustainable performance via flexibility arising from the coordination and exploitation of knowledge resources.
In this paper we focus on the integration of strategic objectives and process knowledge that a manufacturing factory collects from its external interfaces. Using data from a variety of manufacturing industries, this study examines four different types of strategic integration at the manufacturing plant level. We use a path analytic approach to simultaneously assess the contributions of the various types of integration to manufacturing-based competitive capabilities and business level performance. In addition, we examine the intervening roles that manufacturing-based competitive capabilities play in mediating the relationships between strategic integration and business performance. We find that each type of integration activity has unique benefits and detriments. These findings extend prior studies of manufacturing and supply chain integration by broadening the theory relating to strategic integration. The results also provide implications for manufacturing managers who seek to design integration policies and associated resource deployments.
The aim of this paper is to identify the works that have had the greatest impact on strategic management research and to analyze the changes that have taken place in the intellectual structure of this discipline. The methodology is based on the bibliometric techniques of citation and co-citation analysis which are applied to all the articles published in the Strategic Management Journal from its first issue in 1980 through 2000. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Based on an intensive and inductive study of a Fortune 100 corporation, this article describes how dynamic capabilities that reconfigure division resources - that is, architectural innovation - may operate within multibusiness firms. We suggest envisaging corporate divisions as combinations of capabilities and product - market areas of responsibility (charters) that may be recombined in various ways, highlighting the interplay of economic and social imperatives that motivate such recombinations. We detail the microsociological patterns by which such recombinations occur and then theorize about an organizational form, termed "dynamic community," in which these processes are embedded.
The dynamic capabilities framework analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change. The competitive advantage of firms is seen as resting on distinctive processes (ways of coordinating and combining), shaped by the firm's (specific) asset positions (such as the firm's portfolio of difftcult-to- trade knowledge assets and complementary assets), and the evolution path(s) it has aflopted or inherited. The importance of path dependencies is amplified where conditions of increasing retums exist. Whether and how a firm's competitive advantage is eroded depends on the stability of market demand, and the ease of replicability (expanding intemally) and imitatability (replication by competitors). If correct, the framework suggests that private wealth creation in regimes of rapid technological change depends in large measure on honing intemal technological, organizational, and managerial processes inside the firm. In short, identifying new opportunities and organizing effectively and efficiently to embrace them are generally more fundamental to private wealth creation than is strategizing, if by strategizing one means engaging in business conduct that keeps competitors off balance, raises rival's costs, and excludes new entrants. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
As an introduction to the special issue topic of value creation, we define value creation in terms of use value and exchange value and discuss some of the key issues related to its study, including the topic of value capture. Although the definition of value creation is common across levels of analysis, the process of value creation will differ based on whether value is created by an individual, an organization, or society. We use the concepts of competition and isolating mechanisms to explain how value can be captured at different levels of analysis.
abstract The emergent literature on dynamic capabilities and their role in value creation is riddled with inconsistencies, overlapping definitions, and outright contradictions. Yet, the theoretical and practical importance of developing and applying dynamic capabilities to sustain a firm's competitive advantage in complex and volatile external environments has catapulted this issue to the forefront of the research agendas of many scholars. In this paper, we offer a definition of dynamic capabilities, separating them from substantive capabilities as well as from their antecedents and consequences. We also present a set of propositions that outline (1) how substantive capabilities and dynamic capabilities are related to one another, (2) how this relationship is moderated by organizational knowledge and skills, (3) how organizational age affects the speed of utilization of dynamic capabilities and the learning mode used in organizational change, and (4) how organizational knowledge and market dynamism affect the likely value of dynamic capabilities. Our discussion and model help to delineate key differences in the dynamic capabilities that new ventures and established companies have, revealing a key source of strategic heterogeneity between these firms.
We examined how aspects of intellectual capital influenced various innovative capabilities in organizations. In a longitudinal, multiple-informant study of 93 organizations, we found that human, organizational, and social capital and their interrelationships selectively influenced incremental and radical innovative capabilities. As anticipated, organizational capital positively influenced incremental innovative capability, while human capital interacted with social capital to positively influence radical innovative capability. Counter to our expectations, however, human capital by itself was negatively associated with radical innovative capability. Interestingly, social capital played a significant role in both types of innovation, as it positively influenced incremental and radical innovative capabilities.
This paper complements a recent study by Ramos-Rodriguez and Ruiz-Navarro (2004) that investigated the intellectual structure of the strategic management field through co-citation analysis. By using authors as the units of analysis and incorporating all the citations that are included in the Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation Index, we trace the evolution of the intellectual structure of the strategic management field during the period 1980–2000. Using a variety of data analytic techniques such as multidimensional scaling, factor analysis, and Pathfinder analysis, we (1) delineate the subfields that constitute the intellectual structure of strategic management; (2) determine the relationships between the subfields; (3) identify authors who play a pivotal role in bridging two or more conceptual domains of research; and (4) graphically map the intellectual structure in two-dimensional space in order to visualize spatial distances between intellectual themes. The analysis provides insights about the influence of individual authors as well as changes in their influence over time. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.