Learning and firm dynamics: Theoretical approaches and empirical analysis of dynamic capabilities

2007 ◽  
pp. 35-90
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Firm Dynamics ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

Empirische Analyse komplexer kognitiver Strukturen / Empirical Analysis of Complex Cognitive Structures

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ansgar Weymann
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Cognitive Structures ◽  
Cognitive Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Empirische Analyse

AbstractSeveral theoretical approaches emphasize the relevance of empirical research of cognitive structures to the analysis of social action. In this theoretical context two proper empirical techniques of cognitive analysis are discussed: ethnoscience and experimental psycholinguistics. Their integration would connect the validity of the first and the reliability of the second.

scholarly journals Um modelo do processo de inovação à luz da Resource-Based View e da teoria do Crescimento da Firma, de Edith Penrose

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. e19041
Author(s):  
Pedro Henrique Rodrigues de Sousa ◽  
Edgar Reyes Junior ◽  
Caroline Cordova Bicudo da Costa ◽  
André Luiz Nascimento Reis
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Edith Penrose ◽  
Unique Core

Objective: To analyze the innovation process in the light of the RBV and The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, by Edith Penrose.Methodology: A Systematic Literature Review was carried out using the Methodi Ordinatio. The Social Network Analysis technique was performed to determine which theoretical contexts the studies were based on.  Similarity Analysis was also carried out to identify the relationship between the elements of the focal approaches and the innovation process.Originality/relevance: The Penrose study is considered by many researchers to be the antecedent of what was later called Resource-Based View, however, most of these studies did not fully explain the contribution of Penrose´s theory in the specifics of the theoretical view. Although research on innovation has been based on theoretical approaches in the field of strategy, there have been no analyses that systematized the innovation process by integrating the Penrose theory and RBV.Main results: The studies that analyzed innovation from the RBV and the Theory of the Growth of the Firm emphasized the maintenance of competitive advantage as a result of its dynamic capabilities, as well as access to and use of organizational knowledge.The authors identified heterogeneous innovation resources and imperfectly mobile, such as user-technology interactions, trajectory-dependent capabilities, specialized assets, RD capabilities, and network ties.Theoretical contributions: The study revealed that through the continuous execution of the innovation process, unique core competencies (e.g., RD experience) are developed to improve heterogeneous and imperfectly mobile innovation resources.

Contribution of knowing in practice to dynamic capabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ane Isabel Linden ◽  
Claudia Bitencourt ◽  
Hugo Fridolino Muller Neto
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Health Care Organizations ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The Board Of Directors

Purpose This paper aims to discuss the contribution of knowing in practice (KP) to the development of dynamic capabilities (DC) in the context of health-care organizations. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a case study in a Brazilian hospital in three stages using the data collection techniques of interviews, focus groups, shadowing and conjoint analysis. The participants were health-care employees, supervisors, project managers and members of the board of directors. Findings This paper identifies the contribution of KP to develop DC based on strategic practices and their respective microprocesses as key elements to DC microfoundations. In the end, the paper points out a mutual contribution between the theoretical approaches. Research limitations/implications This proposal makes sense in organizations where the practices have a strategic nature, such as hospitals and service providers. Practical implications This study suggests an alignment between strategic and operational views, stimulating learning across organizational levels. Originality/value KP helps to give DC a tangible form by including a human dimension into microfoundations, giving voice to practitioners in the strategic decisions. The integration of KP and DC approaches allows organizations to perceive DC in daily practices making DC present in every organizational level, stimulating a continuous organizational learning process.

scholarly journals Toward an Integrative Framework of Dynamic Capabilities in Innovation-based Public Services: Empirical Analysis in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 60
Author(s):  
Kai-Jo Fu ◽  
Teng-Wen Chang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Public

With the growing significance of public services in developed countries, there is an increased interest in the role of service innovation in governments. While most studies provide empirical analysis on how innovation serves as a promising means of improving public services, little attention has been paid to recognizing which assets and dynamic capabilities are at the heart of service innovation and how successful examples can be identified or classified. The view on this subject remains fragmented, reflecting the need to explore how institutional incentives affect public service innovation. Therefore, the focus of this study is to theorize the concept of service innovation in the public sector to achieve a consensus regarding what types of competitive strategy are the main components of innovation-based public services and to what extent their emergence can be set in motion by institutional design or policy interventions. Based on applications of the public service innovation awards launched by the central government in Taiwan, this paper illustrates the trajectory of innovation through the different approaches of public management. The methods of data collection and analyses of the award-winning agencies are outlined, followed by cluster analysis. The results of the analyses and findings are discussed, and finally, implications for theory and practice are provided.

Schumpeter, Marshall, and Neo-Schumpeterian Evolutionary Economics

2013 ◽  
Vol 233 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fritz Rahmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
Economic Evolution ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Over Time

SummaryThe focus of evolutionary economics is a process of continuous and irreversible economic and organizational change over time. Currently there is no agreement on the explanation of economic evolution.From the perspective of the history of economic thought, at first the theoretical approaches of Schumpeter and Marshall with regard to economic development or evolution are dealt with in detail. For both authors technical and economic innovations are the engine of economic change. According to Schumpeter, they are created through newly established firms as the agents of change. For Marshall, innovations and economic development are a side effect of the manufacturing process and the division of labour. Technical and economic changes go off both gradually (Marshall) or discontinuously (Schumpeter).After that, a concept of neo-Schumpeterian evolutionary economics is elaborated. Evolution is understood as a process of change that leads to the adaptation of complex systems, the result of the causal interaction between variation, selection and retention of variety leading to continuity over time. It has gained wide application to the theory of innovation and later to resource-based theories of the firm. Modern evolutionary economics includes the determinants of new knowledge and innovations into its analysis. Business enterprises not only follow their routine behaviour, in a dynamic view they also show capabilities to restructure their given resources and to build new ones. To sum up, technical and economic evolution are both the result of the unintentionalmarket selection through competitive forces of the environment, and of the intentional, voluntary entrepreneurial choices, based on the firm’s resources and dynamic capabilities.

scholarly journals Dynamic Capabilities: An empirical analysis of its nature

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Javier Alfonso Mendoza Betin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities

scholarly journals Regulations of corporate internal control based on performance assessment of the chief executive officer

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Larisa Kudin
Keyword(s):  
Performance Assessment ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Chief Executive Officer ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Chief Executive ◽  
Theoretical Approaches

The subject of this article is the corporate internal control processes. Internal control plays an important role in activity of the company and is based upon the principles of respecting the interests of all stakeholders, scope of the rights and obligations of shareholders, top managers and the board of directors. Since the chief executive officer is the key figure responsible for the implementation of development strategy, the goal of this research consists in working out the performance indicators of the CEO. The author explores the following theoretical approaches: system of balanced indicators, prism of performance, stakeholder theory, and theory of dynamic capabilities. Special attention is given to dependence of performance of the CEO to his compensation. For implementation of the effective mechanism of internal control, it is proposed to develop the performance indicators of the CEO, taking into account the interests of stakeholders: board of directors, investors, creditors, employees, clients, vendors, and company. In outlining the goals and tasks of activity of the chief executive officer, the expectations of the stakeholders should be considered. The author develops the matrix of key performance indicators for the CEO in the context of stakeholders. The scientific novelty consists in the proposed original methodological approach towards performance assessment of the chief executive officer, the peculiarity of which is lies in comprehensive application of the system of balanced indicators and comparative market efficiency of a corporation.

DEVELOPING AND DEPLOYING KNOWLEDGE FOR INNOVATION: BRITISH AND JAPANESE CORPORATIONS COMPARED

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 73-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON COLLINSON
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Process Development ◽  
Steel Strip ◽  
Employee Motivation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Nippon Steel Corporation ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Plant Level ◽  
The Uk

Within a broader comparison of the management of innovation in British and Japanese firms, this paper focuses on an alliance between British Steel Strip Products and Nippon Steel Corporation established to help the UK firm improve its plant-level procedures for product and process development. The alliance proved successful and clear improvements in defect rates, productivity and product quality were achieved by the UK firm. Some practices, however, proved to be difficult or impossible to "learn" or develop in the organisation context of the British firm. A variety of theoretical approaches, including dynamic capabilities, innovation studies and the "social shaping of technology" are combined in a knowledge-based approach to analyse how differences in the organisation context influence knowledge-management capabilities and innovation. The findings highlight important differences between the two firms, including aspects of managerial power and employee motivation, that influence how specialist knowledge is developed, deployed, integrated and "leveraged" for manufacturing innovation. Contextual factors underpin sustained differences between such firms and therefore represent sources of competitive advantage, but may also contribute to inertia and path-dependency.

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