Innovation, Dynamic Capabilities, and Leadership

Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation in Supply Chains

Supply chain relationships between firms are increasingly important in terms of both competitiveness and developing dynamic capability to respond to rapid changes in the market. Innovation capacity both in firms and in supply chains is also integral to responding to dynamic markets and customer needs. This explorative research examines a sample of firms active in supply chain relationships in A...

Dynamic Capabilities for Continuous Product Innovation

In order to understand the organizational sources of continuous innovation, the paper provides an in– depth analysis of a leading company in the hearing aid industry, which showed impressive ability to develop and introduce innovation in the Nineties. Findings focus on three dynamic capabilities used by the innovator, and their resource-based nature. Discussion points to the generalization of t...

Dynamic capabilities for entrepreneurship and innovation in marketing-driven organisations

This paper uses recent developments in the dynamic resource-based view of the firm to construct a capabilities framework that proposes how an organisation can pursue specific market outcomes. The framework supports a critical evaluation of extant research in the separate fields of entrepreneurship and innovation in marketing-driven organisations, illuminating common weaknesses whose nature sugg...

Environmental dynamism, Innovation and dynamic capabilities: the case of China

Dynamic Investment Strategies and Leadership in Product Innovation

We employ a dynamic market model with endogenous creation of submarkets to study the optimal product innovation strategies of incumbent firms. Firms invest in production capacity and R&D knowledge stock, where the latter determines the hazard rate of innovation. We find that under Markov Perfect Equilibrium behavior the firm with a larger market share on the established market is less likely to...