Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study
This research investigates antecedents, developments and consequences of dynamic capabilities in an organization. It contributes by searching theoretical and empirical answers to the questions: (a) What are the antecedents which can provide an organization with dynamic and ordinary capabilities?; (b...
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Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)
2014-04-01
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| description | This research investigates antecedents, developments and consequences of dynamic capabilities in an organization. It contributes by searching theoretical and empirical answers to the questions: (a) What are the antecedents which can provide an organization with dynamic and ordinary capabilities?; (b) How do these antecedents contribute to create capabilities in an organization?; (c) How do they affect an organization’s competitive advantage?; (d) Can we assess and measure the antecedents and consequences to an organization? From a first (theoretical) perspective, this paper searches answers to the first, second and third questions by reviewing concepts of an ability-based view of organizations that involves the abilities of cognition, intelligence, autonomy, learning and knowledge management, and which contributes to explain the dynamic behavior of the firm in the pursuit of competitive advantage. From a second (empirical) perspective, this paper reinforces and delivers findings to the second, third and fourth questions by presenting a case study that evidences the ability-based view in action in a software corporation, where it contributes by investigating: (a) the development of organizational capabilities; (b) the effects of the new capabilities on the organization; and (c) the assessment and measurement of the abilities and consequences. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-32f9bec0b37d4fa7a3047a24351f49882023-01-02T04:34:58ZengAssociação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (ANPAD)BAR: Brazilian Administration Review1807-76921807-76922014-04-01112164187Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation StudyFarley Simon Nobre0David Walker 1Michael Brown2Universidade Federal do Paraná – PPGADM/UFPR. DAGA/UFPR, Av. Pref. Lothario Meissner, 632, 80210-170, Curitiba, PR, Brazil. The University of Birmingham Business School. The University of Birmingham Business School, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK. Birmingham City Business School. Birmingham City University, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 2SU, UK. This research investigates antecedents, developments and consequences of dynamic capabilities in an organization. It contributes by searching theoretical and empirical answers to the questions: (a) What are the antecedents which can provide an organization with dynamic and ordinary capabilities?; (b) How do these antecedents contribute to create capabilities in an organization?; (c) How do they affect an organization’s competitive advantage?; (d) Can we assess and measure the antecedents and consequences to an organization? From a first (theoretical) perspective, this paper searches answers to the first, second and third questions by reviewing concepts of an ability-based view of organizations that involves the abilities of cognition, intelligence, autonomy, learning and knowledge management, and which contributes to explain the dynamic behavior of the firm in the pursuit of competitive advantage. From a second (empirical) perspective, this paper reinforces and delivers findings to the second, third and fourth questions by presenting a case study that evidences the ability-based view in action in a software corporation, where it contributes by investigating: (a) the development of organizational capabilities; (b) the effects of the new capabilities on the organization; and (c) the assessment and measurement of the abilities and consequences.http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_1462.pdfability-based view; core competencies; dynamic capabilities; software capability maturity model. |
| spellingShingle | Farley Simon Nobre David Walker Michael Brown Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study BAR: Brazilian Administration Review ability-based view; core competencies; dynamic capabilities; software capability maturity model. |
| title | Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study |
| title_full | Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study |
| title_fullStr | Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study |
| title_short | Ability-Based View in Action: A Software Corporation Study |
| title_sort | ability based view in action a software corporation study |
| topic | ability-based view; core competencies; dynamic capabilities; software capability maturity model. |
| url | http://www.anpad.org.br/periodicos/arq_pdf/a_1462.pdf |
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