Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

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Strategic Location Choice under Dynamic Oligopolistic Competition and Spillovers

This paper investigates firms’ optimal location choices explicitly accounting for the role of inwards and outwards knowledge spillovers in a dynamic Cournot oligopoly with firms that are heterogeneous in their ability to carry out cost-reducing R&D. Firms can either locate in an industrial cluster or in isolation. Technological spillovers are exchanged between the firms in the cluster. It is sh...

investigating the effect of motivation and attitude towards learning english, learning style preferences and gender on iranian efl learners proficiency

تحقیق حاضر به منظور بررسی تاثیر انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی، ترجیحات سبک یادگیری و جنسیت بر بسندگی فراگیران ایرانی زبان انگلیسی انجام شد. برای این منظور، 154 فراگیر ایرانی زبان انگلیسی در این تحقیق شرکت کردند. سه ابزار جمع آوری داده ها شامل آزمون تعیین سطح بسندگی زبان انگلیسی آکسفورد، پرسشنامه ترجیحات سبک یادگیری براچ و پرسشنامه انگیزه و نگرش نسبت به یادگیری زبان انگلیسی به م...

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...