Title: Organizational Capabilities and Resources as Temporal Interplay
Abstract: In this paper we offer a perspective on organizational capabilities and resources which helps explain their mutual interdependencies shaped by the passing time. Pursuing grounded theorizing we show how stochastically occurring dynamic capabilities rely for their exercise on cyclically occurring operational capabilities and on the continual existence of resources. We show how these three temporal properties of capabilities and resources are present in the Ulstein Group, a world leader in the design and construction of vessels for the offshore industry. We then show specifically how, during the development of the x-bow, a path-breaking design that enabled strategic renewal, dynamic capabilities were leveraged through temporal interplay with operational capabilities and resources. The analysis enables us to suggest a two-tier temporal model of capabilities and resources consisting of patterns of response cycles and development cycles.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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