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Dynamic Capabilities

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Dynamic capabilities theory is an extension of the resource-based view, developed principally by David Teece, Gary Pisano, and Amy Shuen in a widely cited 1997 paper, that focuses on a firm's capacity to integrate, build, and reconfigure its internal and external resources and competencies in response to rapidly changing business environments. Where the resource-based view emphasizes the value of a firm's existing resource base, dynamic capabilities theory emphasizes the processes by which firms sense opportunities and threats, seize them, and transform their resource base over time. The concept is widely used in strategic management to explain how some firms sustain competitive advantage under conditions of rapid technological or market change while others do not.

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Core Claim
Dynamic capability is an organization's capability to purposefully adapt its resource base by sensing, seizing and reconfiguring resources to match a changing competitive environment. 1
Origin Year
1997 1
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Topic (Functional Area)
Strategy 1
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Associated With

Source Wikipedia, Dynamic Capabilities

The learning organization concept and dynamic capabilities theory both concern an organization's capacity to adapt and renew itself, and are frequently cited together in strategic management literature.

Source Wikipedia, Learning Organization
Open Innovation, Management Theories

Innovation-management literature analyzes open innovation through the dynamic capabilities a firm needs to absorb external knowledge.

Dynamic capabilities theory (Teece, Pisano and Shuen) is presented as an extension of the resource-based view.

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Source Wikipedia, Dynamic Capabilities
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1. Wikipedia, Dynamic Capabilities
Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia, Dynamic capabilities lead section
    The concept was defined by David Teece, Gary Pisano, and Amy Shuen, in their 1997 paper Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management
  • Introduction, functional area topic classification
    In organizational theory, dynamic capability is the capability of an organization to purposefully adapt an organization's resource base.
  • Associated With: Entrepreneurship
  • Developed By: David Teece
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