Strategic Capabilities for Megaproject Architects: Sequencing Network Growth and Bottleneck Removal

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...

A Guide for Megaproject Researchers

Strategic Network Growth with Recruitment Model

Capabilities and Strategic Entrepreneurship in Public Organizations

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS PETER G. KLEIN, JOSEPH T. MAHONEY*, ANITA M. MCGAHAN, and CHRISTOS N. PITELIS Division of Applied Social Sciences, and Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Rotman School of Mana...

Assimilation of Outsourced IT Capabilities: Gearing Their Strategic Capabilities

This paper proposes a model that suggests how firms could create strategic capabilities through IT outsourcing. We suggest how a firm adds value and reaps strategic benefits from IT outsourcing arrangements. A primary proposition is that, in the process of penetration of the managerial and technical capabilities of external vendors, managerial and social factors act as facilitators or inhibitor...