scholarly journals Stakeholder dynamics of contextual ambidextrous capabilities and authenticity: A conceptual synchronisation for competitive advantage

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-35
Author(s):  
S. M. Riad Shams ◽  
Demetris Vrontis ◽  
Alkis Thrassou ◽  
Christos Themistocleous ◽  
Michael Christofi
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Brand Positioning ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Empirical Implications

The combined effect of strategic ambidextrous management (dynamic capabilities and contextual ambidexterity), marketing and brand communication management has been implicitly and explicitly identified as bearing critical implications for competitive advantage. However, the mutual influence of these knowledge streams on competitive advantage as well as its key component of contextual ambidexterity are much under-researched. This article follows an inductive constructivist method to develop a theoretically founded conceptualisation of the means through which the various stakeholder contextual ambidextrous dynamic capabilities can leverage the organisational authenticity learning process in cross-functional management to explore and exploit new competitive advantage scopes. Specifically, this research proposes a theoretically synchronised conceptual framework that focuses on identified key attributes of the knowledge streams, interlinking their individual and combined influences on brand positioning and corporate reputation for the creation of competitive advantage. Scholarly and empirical implications are also presented along with future research avenues.

Resources, capabilities and competitive advantage of minor export crops farms in Sri Lanka

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 478-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilani Sachitra ◽  
Siong-Choy Chong
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
Physical Assets ◽  
Export Crops

Purpose The agribusiness sector has long been acknowledged as a major source of livelihood to many people in developing countries. Hence, determining the resources and capabilities influencing farm-level competitive advantage are vital to better understand and formulate appropriate strategies to increase the competitiveness ofminor export crops farms. This study aims to understand of the link between resources-capabilities-competitive advantage for appropriate measures to be recommended to enhance the competitive position of the smallholding farms. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts the resource-based view in combination with dynamic capabilities. The scope comprises owners of farms who possess experience in commercial cultivation of minor export crops in Sri Lanka. A self-administrated structured questionnaire was used to collect data. Findings Based on the responses from 456 farm owners, results of the multiple regression analysis indicate that variables representing resources such as human assets, physical assets, financial assets, institutional capital, collective action and entrepreneurial identity; and dynamic capabilities such as organisational learning, relationship building, quality management and marketing are significantly associated with competitive advantage of the minor export crops farms. Reputation and farm process management capability are the only two insignificant variables. Taken together, the resources and dynamic capabilities investigated explain 89.3 per cent of the variation in competitive advantage, in which 82 per cent is contributed by resources. Originality/value The findings provide useful insights not only in terms of understanding the link between resources, dynamic capabilities and competitive advantage but also how resources and capabilities can be channelled and leveraged to bring about competitive advantage to the minor export crops farms. Theoretical and practical implications as well as future research directions are provided.

Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Daniel Wadhwani ◽  
Geoffrey Jones
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Conceptual Language ◽  
Micro Foundations

This chapter aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how historical models of change can contribute to theory and research on the competitive advantage of firms during periods of rapid innovation. Focusing on the dynamic capabilities framework, it shows how three models of historical change—evolutionary, dialectical, and constitutive—can be used to extend theory and deepen research about the origins, context, and micro-foundations of dynamic capabilities. We show how each model of historical change shaped the intellectual development of the dynamic capabilities framework, point to historical research that illustrates these processes, and discuss the methodological and conceptual implications for future research. We conclude by suggesting that recognizing and building on these historical models of change can provide a common conceptual language for a deeper dialogue between historians and strategy researchers.

scholarly journals Capacity building for sustained competitive advantage: a conceptual framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 671-691 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Riad Shams
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Rapid Changes ◽  
Socio Economic Development

Purpose – Capacity building is a crucial antecedent for socio-economic development. However, an enhanced capacity that is difficult to develop could quickly be eroded, because of rapid changes in competitive forces in industries and markets. Therefore, this paper intends to analyse the extant strategic management and relationship marketing (RM) literature that deal with competition. Eventually, the purpose of this paper is to develop an alternative route for capacity building process that could sustain competitive advantage in a market or industry, which encounters rapid changes in business competition. Design/methodology/approach – An inductive constructivist approach is followed to support arguments, in order to develop a synthesis from the relevant literature to reinforce the current understandings on capacity building and sustained competitive advantage. Findings – An influence of RM on strategic organisational dynamic capabilities (DCs) is recognised, which appears as significant to sustain DCs and subsequent competitive advantage. Based on this influence, this paper proposes a conceptual framework of capacity building that could survive through the “valuable, rare, inimitability and non-substitutability” test, which is fundamental to sustain competitive advantage. Some empirical insights are developed, in support of this conceptual framework. Practical implications – For research and practice, these insights will be useful to focus on specific attributes in capacity building to sustain the enhanced capacity’s competitive advantage over time, across industries and markets. Social implications – Similarly, the insights will be instrumental to sustain the benefit of capacity building to underpin socio-economic progress. Originality/value – The paper proposes a much needed initial conceptual framework for capacity building to sustain competitive advantage of a hard-earned capacity for socio-economic development.

scholarly journals “Yeni” Teknolojiler ve Kurumsal İletişimin Yeni Araçları

Etkileşim ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 150-168
Author(s):  
Şaha Burcu Baygül Özpınar
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Corporate Communication ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Descriptive Method

In corporate communication, it is essential to use all communication tools that will contribute to the corporate identity and reputation in a continuous, systematic and balanced manner. In an age where technological developments are reshaping all forms of business and communication, the faster the new technologies are applied by corporate companies, the more competitive advantage they provide. Moving from this point, it is very important for institutions to follow and undertand these developments and realize how to take advantage of new trends. In this study, the development of corporate communication was briefly mentioned, and the reflections of the developments in the communication technologies sector since the 1980s in the field of corporate communication were examined by using a descriptive method. The study draws a conceptual framework on the technological applications adopted by institutions in communication management in an effort to contribute to future research.

scholarly journals Dynamic Capabilities and Core Competencies in Achieving Competitive Advantage of Agroforesty-Based School

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Nur Choirul Afif ◽  
Wahyudin Wahyudin
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Positive Effect

This research purposes to prove whether a school not standard in the learning process or having unique resources is able to compete with general schools, which are in accordance with national standard of education in Indonesia. The results of this study showed that dynamic capabilities had a positive effect on core competencies in the agroforestry-based school. Dynamic capabilities did not affect competitive advantage in the agroforestry-based school. Core competencies had a positive effect on competitive advantage in the agroforestry-based school. Core competencies mediated the effect of dynamic capabilities on competitive advantage in the agroforestry-based school. Thus, resource capabilities should be able to form core competencies in educational institutions in order to be able to create competitive advantage for graduates of this school.

Collective social enterprises for social innovation

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 1415-1440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Rey-García ◽  
Nuria Calvo ◽  
Vanessa Mato-Santiso
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Managerial Efficiency

Purpose Cross-sector partnerships (CSPs) are one type of collective social enterprise that has gained importance as a vehicle for social innovation (SI). The purpose of this paper is to understand the sources of the competitive advantage of CSPs as a strategic option for SI. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose a conceptual framework that integrates two interrelated dimensions of CSP competitiveness – resources and coordination – and their corresponding indicators. Then, the authors apply it to an in-depth case study through qualitative enquiry of a large CSP in the field of work integration during its formation and implementation stages (2012–2016). The authors employ a case study design with process tracing methods for increased validity, analyzing structured data from multiple sources (documentary, in-depth interviews with field experts and key decision-makers in coordinating partner organizations, direct observations) through narrative and visual mapping strategies. Findings Results illustrate the dynamic interaction between the key dimensions and factors that shape the potential and limitations of CSPs for SI and evidence three types of tensions which management influences partnership outcomes: hierarchical/horizontal commitment; competition/collaboration; and managerial efficiency/social transformation. Originality/value This research highlights the pivotal role of product development for the organizing of SI in a CSP context and proposes a conceptual framework that paves the way for future research on the sources of competitive advantage of CSPs, facilitating the assessment of their performance in terms of socially innovative outcomes.

scholarly journals Dynamic Capabilities and Ambidexterity: How are These Concepts Related?

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 639-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Popadiuk ◽  
Aruana Rosa Souza Luz ◽  
Caroline Kretschmer
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Design Management ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Organizational Governance ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
Micro Foundations

Abstract The ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities (DCs) literature have contributed to strategic management discussions that seek to explain how firms achieve and sustain competitive advantages. However, few papers are devoted to understanding how they interrelate at Teece’s (2007) micro-foundations of sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring capabilities level. To fill these gaps, we investigate previous works on strategy and organization theories which discuss the ambidexterity-DCs relationship through a systematic literature review complemented by using a snowball technique and then propose a conceptual framework. Review of the literature that integrates the two approaches shows that authors usually understand ambidexterity as a DC. Also, our framework reveals convergent elements between the two kinds of literature, such as learning; sources of information; organizational design; management of scarce resources; increase of resources through outsourcing and alliances; the role of top managers and teams’ participation in decisions; and the relevance of asset specialization and organizational governance. This article aims to contribute to the literature by synthesizing early work relating ambidexterity and DCs; proposing a conceptual framework based on DCs’ micro-foundations; and identifying avenues for future research.

Identification of the Dynamic Capabilities Ecosystem—A Systems Thinking Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 105960112096363
Author(s):  
Vijaya Sunder M ◽  
L S Ganesh
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
Dc System ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Managerial Implications

An in-depth look at the extant literature of dynamic capabilities (DCs) shows that the focus has been on the development, justification, and validation of individual DCs through both conceptual and empirical methods. We argue that studying DCs in isolation may not offer a complete practical meaning. Organizations being complex systems, multiple combinations of capabilities and their interrelationships (as a DC system) lead to a sustained competitive advantage, and this effect cannot be attributed to a single DC in isolation. Through this article, we present a system theoretic view of DCs and subsequently propose the concept of a DC ecosystem using a systems thinking perspective. We use the logical reasoning approach of justificationism to present the associated propositions. We conclude with a discussion of managerial implications and suggestions for future research.

Augmenting training–learning experience by design: a conceptual framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-64
Author(s):  
Sonal Shree
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Training Method ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Module Design ◽  
Dramatic Structure ◽  
Plot Structure ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of designing training sessions on the basis of a dramatic structure and inclusion of contextual narrative for facilitating transfer of learning. The role of stimulating curiosity in this process has also been scanned under the lens of neurobiological insights. Design/methodology/approach The paper theoretically develops a framework through an integrative literature review to examine the prospect of enhanced learner engagement through structure, narrative and some interdisciplinary theories, namely, the gap theory of curiosity and the peak end theory. Findings A contextual story-based training method designed on the basis of a dramatic plot structure can leverage on the learners’ emotions for engaging learning sessions and retention of content. Such design offers potential to improvise and strengthen the overall training module design and delivery mechanism. The outcome is seen through enhanced peak moments of curiosity and satisfaction, thus enriching the overall training–learning process. Research limitations/implications The study is theory based and non-empirical which does not give it a ground to make generalised statements and conclusions. This factor, however, paves the way for future research in the allied areas such as empirical testing of the framework by identifying and testing the variables and other contextual and causal factors. Practical implications The suggested framework has practical implications for Learning and Development managers as well as academies. The conceptual framework provided in this work can lend some unique insights towards strengthening the training–learning process. Originality/value Although the concept of using stories for training is not new, this study contributes by proposing a new theoretical framework that examines together the elements of sound dramatic structure and a story-based training method. Such a design, conceived by taking into account an understanding of the working mind, can influence the overall experience of achieving positive training–learning results.

scholarly journals The Relations between Dynamic Capabilities and Core Competencies on the Case of Polish Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Paweł Cegliński
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
End Products ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This article deals with the relationship between dynamic capabilities and core competencies of companies. Both categories extend the resource-based view of the firm. They are difficult to work out, but thanks to their durability and universality they enable to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Due to intensive changes in the business environment and increasing difficulty in forecasting them, the importance of adaptability based on both categories increases. The presented results of the research of two leading Polish companies—Panek S.A. and Cukiernia Sowa—are practical examples of the impact of dynamic capabilities on the creation of core competencies and indirectly core and end products and services. The analysis is the basis for improvement of future research.

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