Dynamic Capabilities
Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations
1. Auflage Dezember 2006
160 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently
entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change,
firms must develop the "dynamic capabilities" to
create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The
capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its
resource base is vital.
Since the concept of dynamic capabilities was first introduced,
much research has elaborated the initial idea. This important book
by Constance Helfat and her team of leading scholars provides a
timely focus on in-depth examples of corporate dynamic
capabilities. Examining these in the different contexts of
alliances, acquisitions, and management, the book gives students
and researchers a succinct, up-to-date definition of dynamic
capabilities and the strategic management theories around them.
Notes on Contributors vii
Preface xi
1. Dynamic Capabilities: Foundations 1
2. Managers, Markets, and Dynamic Capabilities 19
3. Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Processes 30
4. Executives, Dynamic Capabilities, and Strategic Change 46
5. Relational Capabilities: Drivers and Implications 65
6. Acquisition-Based Dynamic Capabilities 80
7. Firm Growth and Dynamic Capabilities 100
8. Dynamic Capabilities: Future Paths and Possibilities 115
Glossary of Terms 121
List of Company Examples 123
References 124
Author Index 138
Subject Index 142
Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth. Professor Helfat focuses her research on firm
capabilities and knowledge, involving technological innovation and
adaptation and change of firm capabilities over time.
Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of
Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Will
Mitchell is the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International
Management and Professor of Strategy at Duke University's
Fuqua School of Business. Margaret A. Peteraf is Professor
of Strategic Management and Organization at the Tuck School of
Business at Dartmouth. Harbir Singh is the William and
Phyllis Mack Professor at the Wharton School, and the Co-Director
of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation. David J.
Teece is the Mitsubishi Bank Professor and Director of the
Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, Haas School
of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Sidney G.
Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management at
The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
