The network capability refers to the firm’s ability to build, handle and exploit relationships. These capabilities are interwoven in the complex configuration with other capabilities and competencies of the firm and are, in practice, very difficult to separate from them. Rather than assuming that firms inherently possess network capability, our aim is to discover if this actually naturally occu...

in recent years, supply chain management has developed into one of the most critical strategies for achieving competitive advantage in different industries and the supplier selection process has increasingly been distinguished as an important and vital decision in supply chain management of manufacturing and service industries. on the other hand, with so many suppliers having different capabili...

Optimization of turning process is a non-linear optimization with constrains and it is difficult for the conventional optimization algorithms to solve this problem. The purpose of present study is to demonstrate the potential of Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) for optimization of multipass turning process. This algorithm is inspired by competition mechanism among imperialists and coloni...

The aim of this paper is to improve our understanding of the nature, extent and importance of knowledge creation, development and commercialisation in developing countries. The article focuses on the process through which “new” knowledge is converted into beneficial socioeconomic outcomes in developing countries. It recognises that a wide range of science and technology capabilities and activit...

Advanced business processes are mostly distributed and require highly flexible management capabilities. In such scenarios, process parts often leave their initiator’s direct sphere of influence – while management requires both monitoring as well as instant reaction capabilities anytime during the overall execution of the process. However, realizing such functions is often difficult, e.g. due to...

We examine which capabilities technologies provide to support collaborative process modeling. We develop a model that explains how technology capabilities impact cognitive group processes, and how they lead to improved modeling outcomes and positive technology beliefs. We test this model through a free simulation experiment of collaborative process modelers structured around a set of modeling t...

Organization and strategy research has stressed the need for organizations to simultaneously exploit existing capabilities while developing new ones. Yet this increasingly crucial challenge has been accompanied by an ongoing wave of managerial activity and institutional pressures for process management and control. We argue that these pressures stunt a firm’s dynamic capabilities. We develop a ...

Recent research into the development of organizational capability, has focused either upon particular aspects of the development process (e.g. learning, routinization, heuristics, bricolage) or on individual capabilities (e.g. new product development, project management, internationalization, acquisitions). Limited attention has been given to how firms create new systems of capabilities despite...

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...