External Consultant Involvement for Organizational Capability Building in Complex Construction Projects: A Perspective from Interorganizational Learning Process

Effects of IT Capability and External Integration on Organizational Responsiveness: an Organizational Learning Perspective

Drawing upon the organizational learning perspective, this study focuses on the relationship between external integration and organizational responsiveness, and how such relationship is moderated by three kinds of information technology (IT) capability (i.e. inside-out, outside-in, spanning). The results of 197 firms in China reveal the positive relationship between external integration and org...

User involvement in Swedish residential building projects: a stakeholder perspective

One factor influencing quality in the building industry is the ability of users, such as residents, to identify and express their requirements for the product, i.e. the residential building. However, the handling of communication with users in building projects has been insufficiently specified and studied. Drawing on a study of user involvement in building project design, production, and manag...

Crisis Construction and Organizational Learning: Capability Building in Catching-up at Hyundai Motor

Effective organizational beaming requires high absorptive capacity, which has two major elements: prior knowledge base and intensity of effort. Hyundai Motor Company, the most dynamic automobile producer in developing countries, pursued a strategy of independence in developing absorptive capacity. In its process of advancing from one phase to the next through the preparation for and acquisition...

Team Building and Organizational Learning in New Product Development Projects

The Roles of Information Technology in Organizational Capability Building: An IT Capability Perspective

The objective of this study is to examine why and under what situations certain information technology resources can generate positive organizational outcomes. To achieve this, we adopt the organizational capability perspective. Based on this perspective, IT can be viewed as a functional capability that forms highlevel dynamic capability in the copresence of other functional capabilities and re...