Enabling collaborative dynamic capabilities in strategic communities: Firm- vs. network-centric perspectives

Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

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 difficult-to-tr...

IT Capabilities, Process-Oriented Dynamic Capabilities, and Firm Financial Performance

Research Article Gimun Kim Konyang University [email protected] Bongsik Shin San Diego State University [email protected] Kyung Kyu Kim Yonsei University [email protected] Ho Geun Lee Yonsei University [email protected] More and more publications are highlighting the value of IT in affecting business processes. Recognizing firmlevel dynamic capabilities as key to improved firm performan...

Inter-Firm R&D Networks: the Importance of Strategic Network Capabilities for High-Tech Partnership Formation

We examine the role of different network capabilities of companies that influence the formation of R&D partnerships in pharmaceutical biotechnology. Strategic network capabilities, specifically centrality-based capabilities and the efficiency with which companies choose their partners, are found to facilitate the formation of new partnerships. Unlike general experience with partnering, these st...

Examining how firms leverage IT to achieve firm productivity: RBV and dynamic capabilities perspectives

Building Dynamic Capabilities: Innovation Driven by Individual-, Firm-, and Network-Level Effects

F the dynamic capabilities perspective, we suggest that antecedents to innovation can be found at the individual, firm, and network levels. Thus, we challenge two assumptions common in prior research: (1) that significant variance exists at the focal level of analysis, whereas other levels of analysis are assumed to be homogeneous, and (2) that the focal level of analysis is independent from ot...