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Book Resource Recombination in Firms from a Dynamic Capability Perspective

Download or read book Resource Recombination in Firms from a Dynamic Capability Perspective written by Kerstin Kurzhals and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elaborates the concept of Resource Recombination in firms from a Dynamic Capability perspective. With the investigation of the role of Dynamic Capabilities in the process of innovation generation through Resource Recombination, this research addresses some existing shortcomings in the Dynamic Capability literature, where there is a crucial need to better understand the interrelationship between Dynamic Capabilities, the firm`s resource base, and innovation through Resource Recombinations. This research contributes to the resource and competence based research by developing and empirically testing a conceptual model of factors influencing Resource Recombination in firms. The principal aim of this research is to bring clarity to the notion of Dynamic Capabilities, their role and effects towards building Resource Recombinations in firms. About the author: Dr. Kerstin Kurzhals is junior professor for Innovation, Engagement und Co-Creation at the Münster School of Business (MSB). As head of the Science-to-Society research group affiliated to the Science-to-Business-Marketing Research Centre at Münster University of Applied Sciences, she conducts research and business projects at the interface of innovation, entrepreneurship and strategic management. In 2015, Kerstin Kurzhals successfully completed her doctoral thesis at Coventry University Business School (UK), in which she investigated the role and effect of dynamic capabilities for innovation generation.

Book Resource Recombination in Firms from a Dynamic Capability Perspective

Download or read book Resource Recombination in Firms from a Dynamic Capability Perspective written by Kerstin Kurzhals and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elaborates the concept of Resource Recombination in firms from a Dynamic Capability perspective. With the investigation of the role of Dynamic Capabilities in the process of innovation generation through Resource Recombination, this research addresses some existing shortcomings in the Dynamic Capability literature, where there is a crucial need to better understand the interrelationship between Dynamic Capabilities, the firm`s resource base, and innovation through Resource Recombinations. This research contributes to the resource and competence based research by developing and empirically testing a conceptual model of factors influencing Resource Recombination in firms. The principal aim of this research is to bring clarity to the notion of Dynamic Capabilities, their role and effects towards building Resource Recombinations in firms.

Book Dynamic Capabilities

Download or read book Dynamic Capabilities written by Constance E. Helfat and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change, firms must develop the “dynamic capabilities” to create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its resource base is vital. Since the concept of dynamic capabilities was first introduced, much research has elaborated the initial idea. This important book by Constance Helfat and her team of leading scholars provides a timely focus on in-depth examples of corporate dynamic capabilities. Examining these in the different contexts of alliances, acquisitions, and management, the book gives students and researchers a succinct, up-to-date definition of dynamic capabilities and the strategic management theories around them.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Creativity  Innovation  and Entrepreneurship

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Christina Ellen Shalley and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2015 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity can be viewed as the first stage of the overall innovation process, an important dimension of the entrepreneurship and new venture creation processes, and as such, it is considered to be a cornerstone of organizational competitiveness in this global, knowledge-based economy. Research on creativity has increasingly become multilevel, with most work conducted at the individual or team level of analysis. At the same time, there is a large body of research being conducted at the organizational level of analysis on innovation, and there has been a significant amount of entrepreneurship research at the individual level, with an increasing focus on organizational entrepreneurship. However, these three research streams have developed independently, and there has been very little knowledge transfer between the three areas. Because entrepreneurship is often said to be a process that is required to convert innovation into business ventures that will deliver benefits to stakeholders, it is typically driven by an individual or small group of individuals. Creativity research, innovation research, and entrepreneurship research have the potential to inform each other, enriching our knowledge of each area, particularly with regard to the cognitive processes and behaviors that are most effective. This Handbook includes contributions from the leading scholars in these three research areas, who integrate contemporary research findings on organizational creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and provide fruitful new research directions."

Book Creating Dynamic Capabilities Through Business Partnerships

Download or read book Creating Dynamic Capabilities Through Business Partnerships written by Wei Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some firms able to survive and prosper through the recessions, technological revolutions, economic and market changes but others fail? As the business environment is characterised by accelerating pace of changes, this topic has received increasing attention from both academic scholars and industrial practitioners in an attempt to explain sustainable competitive advantage of firms. Establishing business partnerships has long been recognised as one of the most effective ways to help firms manage technological turbulence and dynamic market environments. Thus, this study adopts a promising approach-Dynamic Capability Approach (DCA)-in the context of business partnerships and investigates the role of dynamic capabilities in achieving superior firm performance. DCA has emerged to explore the dynamic capabilities that firms use to purposefully create, modify and re-combine their resources base in response to external market dynamics (Eisenhardt & Martin, 2000; Helfat, et al., 2007; Teece, Pisano, & Shuen, 1997). The central logic of DCA is that dynamic capabilities are higher-order capabilities that persistently transform ordinary organisational resources and capabilities into superior firm performance; they are conceptualised as the sources of firms' sustainable competitive advantage especially in dynamic business environments. Most studies in DCA field are conceptual and explanatory nature and empirical works are rare. The main purpose of this study is to conceptualise and operationalise dynamic capabilities, examine their importance for firm performance as well as their mediating role in the relationship between organisational resources, capabilities and firm performance. Five important dynamic capabilities identified are: integrative capability, agility, network competence, R&D competence, and market orientation. Integrative capability is the ability of firms to promote inter-organisational coordination and manage the complementarity and compatibility of resources and capabilities. Thus, this study also examines the role of integrative capability in enhancing the effect of organisational resources and capabilities on developing new dynamic capabilities.Relationship marketing perspective is incorporated to help explain the variation in organisational performance in business partnerships. To date, very little research has integrated DCA and relationship marketing perspective to study the firms' superior performance. This study is therefore aimed at filling this gap. Firms that are able to generate relational rents are those that are better at managing relational capital than their counterparts. Thus, the study empirically examines the importance of relational capabilities on firm performance and to what extent they enhance the effect of organisational resources and capabilities on superior firm performance and the development of dynamic capabilities. The study context is the Chinese manufacturing sector. Mail survey with structured questionnaire was used to collect date. Senior managers were chosen as key informants since they were assumed to have the broadest knowledge on the partnerships their business had. The sampling frame consisted of Chinese manufacturers with minimum of fifty full-time employees and five years of history in the main industry. A usable sample of 300 was obtained, yielding an effective response rate of 30%. The direct contribution of organisational resources, organisational capabilities, relational capabilities and dynamic capabilities on firm performance was examined using multiple regression. The findings indicate that the most important resources predicting superior performance are reputation for quality and brand reputation. Human resources are related to the achievement of strategic performance, although they do not have a significant effect on marketing effectiveness and financial performance. In terms of organisational capabilities, marketing and technological capabilities are more important predictors of firm performance than manufacturing and managerial capabilities. Surprisingly, learning capability is not directly related to firm performance. The findings also indicate that guanxi (interpersonal relationship) is the most important relational factor, followed by organisational commitment and loyalty to partnerships. Trust and conflict management do not significantly predict firm performance. With regard to dynamic capabilities, the findings indicate integrative capability, agility, network competence, R&D competence, and market orientation significantly predict the firm performance. The set of dynamic capabilities explains the highest variance of firm performance than organisational resources, organisational capabilities and relational capabilities. This suggests that dynamic capabilities are a superior source of firm performance.Structural equation modelling was used to examine the mediating role of relational capabilities and dynamic capabilities in the relationship between organisational resources, capabilities and firm performance. Relational capabilities are the important mechanisms for transmitting the effect of human resources and brand reputation into firm performance, as well as boosting the effect of managerial and marketing capabilities on firm performance and new capabilities. Relational capabilities are also important mechanisms that transform manufacturing, managerial and marketing capabilities into dynamic capabilities.With regard to dynamic capabilities, the findings support that each dynamic capability significantly mediates the relationship between resources and firm performance, particularly financial reputation, brand reputation and human resources. The findings also indicate that dynamic capabilities mediate the relationship between organisational capabilities, firm performance and the development of new capabilities. Among all dynamic capabilities, integrative capability is the strongest mechanism for transforming the capabilities particularly manufacturing, managerial, marketing and learning capabilities into superior firm performance and new capabilities. Integrative capability also enhances the effect of these four capabilities on the development of new dynamic capabilities. Agility and network competence are important mechanisms for transforming manufacturing, managerial and marketing capabilities into performance outcomes. Further, R&D competence enhances the effect of manufacturing and learning capabilities on performance whilst market orientation assists managerial and marketing capabilities in achieving superior performance. The major contribution of this study is to extend the knowledge of DCA by conceptualising, operationalising and empirically testing the importance of dynamic capabilities on firm performance in the context of business partnerships. The study suggests that further investigation in DCA is potentially a productive area to understand competitive advantage and business performance. The study also extends the applicability of DCA by testing the approach in emerging economies. In addition, by incorporating the relationship marketing perspective, the study provides a holistic overview of the major determinants of successful partnerships within the Resource-Based View. Furthermore, the study has implications for managers in that incorporating dynamic capabilities deepens the understanding of determinants of firm performance. Finally, the study implies that establishing business partnerships can be an effective approach to create dynamic capabilities with significant performance implications for the partner organisations.

Book Strategic Reconfigurations

Download or read book Strategic Reconfigurations written by Stuart Wall and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of ever increasing talent and ever more rapid creation of new knowledge, and in a world that is growing in complexity by the day, it is truly intriguing to learn of capabilities for success and failure in rapid innovation-based industries. The fusion of academic concepts and empirical insights make this book a source of inspiration for inquiring managers. Norbert Walter, Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank and CEO of Deutsche Bank Research, Germany This volume represents a most welcome and important contribution to the emergent and fast-growing dynamic capabilities view (DCV) of the firm and sustainable competitive advantage. It simultaneously helps to assess critically, integrate with a wide range of other perspectives, broaden the scope, and deepen the conceptual foundations of the DCV. In addition and importantly, it links DCV to, and contrasts it with, managerial practice. The authors dispassionate approach is a further plus. The editors have done an excellent job and should be congratulated for this work that should be a must-read. Christos Pitelis, Reader in International Business and Competitiveness, University of Cambridge, UK This path-breaking book provides unique insights into the organisational realities of strategic reconfigurations in uncertain markets, thus advancing the dynamic capability perspective. Dynamic capabilities continue to excite academics. It is a perspective that promises explanations of competitive advantage, but its full potential remains somewhat hidden behind abstract notions. This eloquent volume seeks to overcome the challenge by combining the theory and practice of organisational resource configurations. Joint contributions by expert academics and business executives demystify, but also confirm, elements of the theory. Thus, the book integrates dynamic capabilities with organisational realities as well as with adjacent theories of strategic innovation and entrepreneurship. Strategic Reconfigurations provides a guide to strategic management in turbulent times, for students, researchers, and professionals alike. Business executives in high-velocity markets will find the book invaluable.

Book Advanced Strategic Management

Download or read book Advanced Strategic Management written by Mark Jenkins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This core textbook is concerned with the managerial decisions, processes and activities that allow the creation and implementation of a strategy. Advanced Strategic Management adopts a multi-perspective approach to evaluate and challenge assumptions about what strategy is concerned with and thus strengthen students' understanding of strategic management. This new third edition weaves together theoretical debate and practical insights to enrich the way in which strategy is both viewed and enacted. Written by leading experts, this is an engaging and challenging resource, perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking strategy courses. New to this Edition: - Fully revised and updated content throughout - A new detailed introduction and conclusion which link together the ideas and different perspectives throughout the book

Book Resources  Firms  and Strategies

Download or read book Resources Firms and Strategies written by Nicolai J. Foss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic management has been increasingly characterized by an emphasis on core competences. Firms are advised to divest unrelated businesses and return to core business. Moreover, competitive advantage is now increasingly seen as a matter of efficiently deploying scarce knowledge resources to product markets. Much of this change in emphasis has occurred because of the emergence of a unified and rigorous approach to strategy, often called the resource-based approach. This Reader brings together extracts from the seminal articles that created this dominant perspective in strategic management. It includes the pioneering work of Selznick, Penrose, and Chandler and more recent writing by Wernerfelt, Barney, Teece, and Prahalad and Hamel.

Book Planning for Information Systems

Download or read book Planning for Information Systems written by William R. King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by one of the best-known and most widely respected figures in the field, "Planning for Information Systems" is a comprehensive, single source overview of the myriad ideas and processes that are identified with IS planning. While many chapters deal with high level strategic planning, the book gives equal attention to on-the-ground planning issues.Part I, 'Key Concepts of IS Planning', focuses on how IS planning has evolved over the years; business-IS strategic alignment; and the role of dynamic organizational capabilities in leveraging IS competencies. Part II, 'The Organizational IS Planning Process,' describes IS planning in terms of critical success factors and includes a knowledge-based view of IS planning; a practical assessment of strategic alignment; the IT budgeting process; the search for an optimal level of IS strategic planning; and the role of organizational learning in IS planning.Part III, 'IS Investment Planning', deals with predicting the value that an IS project may have; a 'rational expectations' approach to assessing project payoffs; assessing the social costs and benefits of projects; an options-based approach to managing project risks; planning for project teams; and the moderating effects of coordinated planning. Part IV, 'Goals and Outcomes of IS Planning', considers information strategy as a goal and/or outcome of IS planning; IT infrastructure as a goal or outcome; competitive advantage as a goal or outcome; e-process partnership chains; and planning successful Internet-based projects.

Book Sustainable Growth Through Strategic Innovation

Download or read book Sustainable Growth Through Strategic Innovation written by Mitsuru Kodama and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From detailed reviews of existing dynamic capabilities, this book presents a theoretical model of a strategic innovation system as a corporate system capability to enable a large company to achieve strategic innovation. The book includes in-depth case studies to illustrate the importance of strategic innovation capabilities.

Book Strategy in Transition

Download or read book Strategy in Transition written by Richard A. Bettis and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bursting of the ‘dotcom bubble’ and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have brought into question received wisdom about strategy. This volume reviews the lessons to be learnt from these events, and proposes that, as a result, strategy in the twenty-first century will have to develop along new lines. Comprising a series of outstanding contributions by experts in the field, the collection focuses on changes that are occurring in how strategy is viewed, formulated and analysed, and looks forward to the future of strategic management. It discusses the emergence of new modes of thinking, new models, and new processes, and lays foundations on which strategy can build in future.

Book Resource Based Theory

Download or read book Resource Based Theory written by Jay B. Barney and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-04-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Resource-Based View of the Firm' has emerged over the last fifteen years as one of the dominant perspectives used in strategic management. It addresses the fundamental research question of strategic management: Why it is that some firms persistently outperform others? Resource-Based Theory provides a considered overview of this theory, including the latest developments, from one of the key thinkers in its development. In broad terms it offers an alternative to Michael Porter's approach, focusing more on the competences and capabilities of the firm, rather than its positioning in its chosen markets. Jay B. Barney has long been recognised as one of the leading contributor to the resource-based theory literature. In this book he has collaborated with Delwyn N. Clark to produce the first book to examine the theory in a holistic and in-depth manner. The authors explore not only the applications of the theory in research, teaching, and practice, but also its early roots in traditional economic theory, development and proliferation in the 1990s, and later influence on management thinking.

Book Innovation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Renu Agarwal
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-09-01
  • ISBN : 1000641236
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Innovation written by Renu Agarwal and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, a great deal of attention has been focussed on the undertaking of managing innovation. Without the right focus, resourcing and capabilities, firms struggle to create value through innovation. However, the task of managing innovation is one of continuous paradoxes where an overly structured mind-set can impede entrepreneurship, creativity, culture and the right conditions for disruption. The question remains of how we can have the right lens to properly understand and appreciate innovation, and how we can have a flexible set of tools, techniques and perspectives to support innovation. This concise text introduces readers to one of the fundamental ideas in the business world. Insights into the key ingredients of innovation, including business models, services, entrepreneurship and creativity are analysed alongside core contexts, such as disruptive technology. Students of business and management will appreciate additional coverage of the future of the field, including open innovation and the dark side of digital disruption. This accessible book provides a thought-provoking, stimulating perspective that will make it a valuable resource for a range of academic and student audiences across business and management disciplines.

Book The Impact of Dynamic Capabilities on Resource Access and Development

Download or read book The Impact of Dynamic Capabilities on Resource Access and Development written by Christian Stadler and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes dynamic capabilities that support activities directed toward accessing resources and further developing resources to make them commercially usable. We develop theory and empirically investigate the impact of dynamic capabilities on the amount and success of these activities, and whether the impact of dynamic capabilities differs between the two types of activities. Using unique data from the upstream oil industry, we develop an objective measure of dynamic capability that is distinct from the outcomes of utilizing these capabilities. We find that firms with more sophisticated dynamic capabilities undertake greater amounts of activity to access resources and further develop them prior to commercial use, and have greater success in these activities. Finally, these effects of dynamic capabilities are larger for activities directed toward initially accessing resources than toward further developing them, consistent with the potential for firms to rely on knowledge gained through resource access activity when conducting subsequent activity to further develop resources.

Book Innovation and Dynamic Capabilities  In Convergent Approach

Download or read book Innovation and Dynamic Capabilities In Convergent Approach written by Dr. K. L. Prasanna Kumar and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication deals with the conceptualization of innovation as one of the key capabilities of the organisation.Author propose that the innovation management practices should appropriate the organisational capabilities to achieve competitive advantage in the business environment.

Book Developing  Shaping and Growing Entrepreneurship

Download or read book Developing Shaping and Growing Entrepreneurship written by Alain Fayolle and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many factors involved in becoming an effective entrepreneur. The process of recognizing opportunities and nurturing new ventures must take into account both internal decision-making practice and external environmental influence.

Book IT Enabled Strategic Management  Increasing Returns for the Organization

Download or read book IT Enabled Strategic Management Increasing Returns for the Organization written by Walters, Bruce and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book makes an effort to explore the interaction of information technology and strategic management and aims to encourage joint research efforts among IT and strategy scholars for common solutions"--Provided by publisher.