This paper explores how the dynamic capabilities of firms may account for the emergence of differential firm performance within an industry. Synthesizing insights from both strategic and organizational theory, four performance-relevant attributes of dynamic capabilities are proposed: timing of dynamic capability deployment, imitation as part of the search for alternative resource configurations...

From the knowledge-based view, an organization is considered an entity that integrates and distributes knowledge to produce products and services. Knowledge is acknowledged as a sustainable basis of competitive advantage that many organizations possess. Entrepreneurial activity also has been viewed as an essential feature for organizations to survive and prosper in today’s turbulent environment...

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...