Unpacking the Constituents of Dynamic Capabilities: A Microfoundations Perspective

Network Responsiveness: the Social Structural Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities

Intraorganizational social networks are known to be important antecedents to individual career attainment, but research examining their influence on firm-level performance has been limited. We argue that the intrafirm network is likely to affect two firm-level outcomes: coordination and adaptability. Prior research has shown formal structure to be a useful tool for reshaping organizational netw...

Unpacking the Black Box of IT Capabilities

IT Capabilities are vital to the competitive performance of firms in contemporary business environment. Firms can no long have competitive advantages by obtaining affordable information technology resources. Rather organizational IT capabilities are often cited as one of the most important factors that influence firm performance. The purpose of this paper is to enhance the understanding of IT c...

Developing Dynamic IT Capabilities – A Systems Perspective

Many organisations still have difficulty obtaining value from their IT spend. The literature indicates that two ways of improving this situation is via better strategic business/IS alignment and the development of a dynamic IS capability. It is argued that the development of these skills occurs within a complex, dynamic social system and have the characteristics of wicked problems and are poorl...

Explicating Dynamic Capabilities: the Nature and Microfoundations of (sustainable) Enterprise Performance

This paper draws on the social and behavioral sciences in an endeavor to specify the nature and microfoundations of the capabilities necessary to sustain superior enterprise performance in an open economy with rapid innovation and globally dispersed sources of invention, innovation, and manufacturing capability. Dynamic capabilities enable business enterprises to create, deploy, and protect the...

The Microfoundations of Macroeconomics: An Evolutionary Perspective