We model firms as sets of scarce capabilities, where these capabilities constitute sources of competitive advantage. Markets are also represented by sets of capabilities, identifying those capabilities that are valuable in them. Doing so provides a new perspective on several industrial organization literatures. These include merger analysis, strategic alliances, investment and market dynamics. ...

Modularity in organizations can facilitate the creation and development of dynamic capabilities. Paradoxically, however, modular management can also stifle the strategic potential of such capabilities by conflicting with the horizontal integration of units. We address these issues through an examination of how modular management of information technology (IT), project teams and front-line perso...

It is extremely important to make a scientific evaluation on enterprise’s strategic capability. Focusing on the power supply enterprise, this paper designs a “five-force” mode composed by strategic capabilities and advances a complete strategic capability evaluation system. In addition, this paper proves the system’s feasibility and practicability by case study. To sum up, this paper provides w...

Modelization of competitive advantage has received great attention in scientific management literature. We present a conceptual proposal concerning the strategic knowledge-intensive capabilities evaluation criteria. In a different way from previous studies, we focus in differentiating between causes and effects. Likewise, we identify to wide kinds of strategic evaluation criteria that hold hier...

The aim of this paper is to propose a method to investigate a firm’s strategic changes. Technologies or technological capabilities are a major resource for achieving competitive advantages, so a firm’s R&D effort to improve capabilities on specific technologies is aligned with strategic direction. Therefore, this research analyzes changes in R&D efforts by identifying key R&D personnel using pa...

Strategic intent represents an organization’s vision and its aspired direction of growth. Organizations that lack a serious strategic intent suffer from “scarcity of ambition” that inhibits them from compiling the resource stocks that may lead to future success. Despite being almost three decades old, there has been a dearth of empirical papers testing strategic intent theory and, therefore, th...

This study expands upon current conceptualizations of fit between a firm’s competitive strategies and information systems capabilities. Limitations of existing theories have hindered the development of operationalized models for measuring the strategic fit of a firm’s information system. Using configurational theory and the concept of emergent strategies and capabilities, this paper develops a ...

In this paper we focus on the integration of strategic objectives and process knowledge that a manufacturing factory collects from its external interfaces. Using data from a variety of manufacturing industries, this study examines four different types of strategic integration at the manufacturing plant level. We use a path analytic approach to simultaneously assess the contributions of the vari...