scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship Between Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Elnivan Moreira de Souza ◽  
Sergio Henrique Arruda Cavalcante Forte
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Primary Motivation ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Managerial Capabilities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Micro Foundations

The micro-foundations research agenda's primary motivation in strategy is to dissect macro-level constructs in terms of actions and organizational members' interactions to the micro-level. This work seeks to evolve the understanding of these micro-foundations to explain the relationship between Managerial Cognitive Capabilities and Dynamic Managerial Capabilities. We conducted a laboratory experiment with a sample of 111 participants, divided into two groups, containing 57 and 54 participants, each one. The results revealed that Sensing Opportunity and Seizing Opportunity, components of the Dynamic Managerial Capability, and the Language and Communication, which are part of the Cognitive Managerial Capability, can be predictive of the ability to Reconfigure Tangible and Intangible Assets. Our research contributes by extending central literature on micro-foundations through an experiment. We empirically show that managerial and cognitive dynamic capabilities can be a preeminent field to improve the comprehension of dynamic capabilities' micro-foundations.

scholarly journals Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation

2020 ◽  
pp. 026624262097047
Author(s):  
Alex Kevill ◽  
Kiran Trehan ◽  
Shelley Harrington ◽  
Selen Kars-Unluoglu
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Group Level ◽  
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Micro Foundations ◽  
Micro Enterprises

This article analyses how dynamic capabilities are enacted in micro-enterprises and what role different parties and managerial time allocation play in this enactment. Drawing upon three in-depth case studies of micro-enterprises, we make three theoretical contributions. First, after arguing that micro-enterprises are likely to enact individual- or group-level dynamic managerial capabilities rather than organisation-level dynamic capabilities, we counter Teece’s warnings about the vulnerable nature of dynamic managerial capabilities. Second, we identify that how managers allocate their own time, is a core micro-foundation of dynamic managerial capabilities; we illustrate that failure to allocate time to capability enactment can lead to capability vulnerability. Finally, we introduce the notion of ‘self-damaging dynamic managerial capabilities’ – these being capabilities that damage established micro-foundations.

Dynamic managerial capabilities, organisational capacity for change and organisational performance: the moderating effect of attitude towards change in a public service organisation

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunu Widianto ◽  
Yetty Dwi Lestari ◽  
Beta Embriyono Adna ◽  
Badri Munir Sukoco ◽  
Mohammad Nasih
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Middle Manager ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Organisational Capacity ◽  
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Capacity For Change

PurposeThe aim of this study is to explore dynamic managerial capabilities (DMCs) and their effect on public organisational performance. While the previous research has focused on how leadership style impacts on organisational performance, the authors have investigated how the dynamic managerial capabilities of middle managers and their organisational capacity for change as well as their attitude towards the change are linked to organisational performance.Design/methodology/approachThe dataset was gathered during the field research carried out in a large public Indonesian government institution. In total, 313 managers and their direct followers participated in this study. The authors have employed structural equation modelling to test the hypotheses.FindingsThe results of this study demonstrate the role of the dynamic capabilities of the middle managers associated with organisational performance. The results show that dynamic managerial capabilities and organisational performance are mediated by the organisational capacity for change.Practical implicationsMiddle managers should equip and develop their capabilities in order to embrace change in the organisation through the communication between the different staff levels, uniting the vision and mission with the organisational members. Further, the organisation should empower the role of the middle managers by increasing their authority and participation in the policy-making that is part of the change process. In addition, the workplace could implement interventions to optimise the dynamic managerial capabilities held by the middle manager and employees through assessments and mentoring. Finally, particular training programmes could be implemented to boost the employees' skills and flexibility, thereby keeping them agile in the context of the changes in the work environment.Originality/valueThe role of the dynamic managerial capabilities of the middle manager is a prominent factor when facilitating a high level of organisational performance in a public organisation. However, the role of dynamic managerial capabilities does not have a direct effect on organisational performance if the organisation does not have the capacity to change, particularly in the Indonesian context.

Oppression

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Garcia ◽  
Dorothy Van Soest
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Power Arrangements

A firm grasp of the nature of oppression, with its dynamics of power and its systemic character, is required so that social workers can avoid unintended collusion with pervasive oppressive systems if they are to be successful in promoting social and economic justice. Recognizing the relationship between macro-level and micro-level dynamics and their implications for practice is an substantive part of social work practice. This perspective includes attention to the ubiquitousness of privilege and oppression and the potential consequences of ignoring this reality as complicity in and normalizing exclusionary and marginalizing behaviors. This article discusses the concept of oppression, its dynamics and common elements, and anti-oppressive practices that can expose and dismantle oppressive relationships and systemic power arrangements.

Bridging Levels of Public Administration: How Macro Shapes Meso and Micro

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
American History ◽  
The State ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Meso Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars in public administration now recognize three levels of analysis: macro, meso, and micro. But there is uncertainty about the relationship between levels and concern about a “schism” in research. However, linkages between levels can be demonstrated easily. At the macro-level, leaders develop an overall strategy for pursuing national priorities, which determines the broad architecture of the state. Institutions must be built, renovated, or managed to give effect to these strategies: This is the meso-level of public administration. Overall, strategies also shape the micro-level relationship between people who rule and people who are ruled. This is done by categorizing people—as subjects or citizens, for example—and by redefining categories. Macro-level strategies evolve, with consequences for the agenda at the meso- and micro-levels. Experience at lower levels also shapes strategy at the macro-level. The interaction among levels is illustrated by comparison of three eras in modern American history.

scholarly journals So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Scholar — Well You Need to Get an MBA

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Rob Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Rock And Roll ◽  
Record Industry ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Stax Records

Stax Records was a record label based in Memphis, Tennessee from the late 1950s through December 1975, when it was forced into involuntary bankruptcy. "So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Scholar — Well You Need to Get an MBA" uses Stax Records as a case study to problematize what has often been a tendency within popular music scholarship to attempt to understand the political economy of the record industry primarily via the mechanical application of Marxist theory on a macro level. In looking in detail at the relationship between CBS Records and Stax from 1972 through 1975, the author concludes that to fully understand the nature of the distribution agreement between the two companies, its ramifications, and the consequent subsequent actions of the various principals involved, all of which eventually led to Stax's bankruptcy, one needs to take into account on a micro level the different modi operandi of independent and major labels, differences in the retail world of black and white America, and individual agency. Finally, all of the above needs to be considered very specifically within a temporal framework. The final conclusions prove to be significantly different from what would have resulted from solely from a Marxist analysis on a macro level.

Entrepreneurs' Social Skills and New Venture Performance: Mediating Mechanisms and Cultural Generality

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Baron ◽  
Jintong Tang
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Social Perception ◽  
New Venture ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Venture Performance ◽  
Mediating Variables ◽  
Mediating Mechanisms ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
New Venture Performance

This research seeks to extend previous findings concerning the relationship between entrepreneurs' social skills and new venture performance. Two potential mediators of such effects (entrepreneurs' success in obtaining information and essential resources) were investigated, and data were collected in a culture not included in previous studies (China). Results indicate that several social skills (e.g., social perception, expressiveness) are significantly related to measures of new venture performance and that these effects are indeed mediated by the two proposed mediating variables. Implications of these findings for efforts to understand how micro-level variables influence macro-level measures of new venture performance are discussed.

Dynamic Managerial Capabilities

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Ambrosini ◽  
Gulsun Altintas
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Dynamic Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities ◽  
Managerial Capabilities ◽  
Do So

Dynamic managerial capabilities are a form of dynamic capabilities. They are concerned with the role of managers in refreshing and transforming the resource base of the firm so that it maintains and develops its competitive advantage and performance. To do so, managers must develop entrepreneurial activities. These activities consist of sensing and seizing opportunities and transforming the resource base. While most studies focus on the role of top managers and CEOs, entrepreneurial activities can occur throughout the organization. Mid- and lower-level managers can also sense opportunities emanating from the market. Managerial human capital, managerial social capital, and managerial cognition are the three main antecedents to dynamic managerial capabilities.

International Peacekeeping and Positive Peace

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 2074-2104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Mironova ◽  
Sam Whitt
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Real World ◽  
Experimental Methods ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement ◽  
Positive Peace ◽  
International Peacekeeping ◽  
Micro Foundations

To what extent can international peacekeeping promote micro-foundations for positive peace after violence? Drawing on macro-level peacekeeping theory, our approach uses novel experimental methods to illustrate how monitoring and enforcement by a neutral third party could conceivably enhance prosocial behavior between rival groups in a tense, postconflict peacekeeping environment. Using a laboratory experiment in postwar Kosovo, we find that third-party enforcement is more effective at promoting norms of trust between ethnic Serbs and Albanians than monitoring alone or no intervention at all. We then consider real-world extensions for building positive peace across different intervention environments. Using a dictator experiment that exploits heterogeneity in NATO peacekeeping in different regions of Kosovo, our inferences about monitoring and enforcement appear robust to ecological conditions in the field.

scholarly journals Routine Activity Theory and Farm Equipment Theft: A Macro-Level Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Dustin L. Osborne ◽  
Kristin Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Activity Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
Routine Activity Theory ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Routine Activity ◽  
United States Census ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Farm Equipment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theory Framework

Though a handful of studies have explored the relationship between farm characteristics and theft of farm equipment, all have been focused at the micro level. Put differently, they have sought to determine whether a relationship exists between likelihood of theft victimization and the characteristics (e.g., size, location) of individual farming operations. The current study builds upon this work by seeking to determine whether county-level factors (in line with the routine activity theory framework) serve to influence the incidence of farm equipment theft within counties. Data are derived from the National Incident-Based Reporting System, the Census of Agriculture and the United States Census of the Population.  Results are on the whole supportive of the theory's application to the problem and suggest that macro-level investigations constitute a worthwhile approach to better understanding agricultural victimization.

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