Dynamic capabilities, creative action, and poetics
Research on dynamic capabilities explores how businesses change enables enterprises to remain competitive. However, theory on dynamic capabilities still struggles to capture novelty, the essence of change. This study argues that a full understanding of strategic change requires us to sharpen our foc...
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Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo
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| description | Research on dynamic capabilities explores how businesses change enables enterprises to remain competitive. However, theory on dynamic capabilities still struggles to capture novelty, the essence of change. This study argues that a full understanding of strategic change requires us to sharpen our focus on real people and experiences; in turn, we must incorporate other faculties, which almost always operate alongside our logical ones, into our theory. We must pay more attention to the “non-rational” sides of ourselves—including, but not limited to, our imaginations, intuitions, attractions, biographies, preferences, and aesthetic faculties and capabilities. We argue that all such faculties, on the one hand, are central to our abilities to comprehend and cope with complexity and, on the other hand, foster novel understandings, potential responses, and social creativity. This study introduces the possibility of an alternative form of inquiry that highlights the role of poetic faculties in strategic behavior and change. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3464c1d0081f4b93bdc3adc4f5bb4e472023-08-02T05:04:11ZengFundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São PauloRAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas2178-938X2178-938X2017-05-01573264272Dynamic capabilities, creative action, and poeticsDonald MacLean0Professor at University of Glasgow, Adam Smith Business School – Glasgow, UKResearch on dynamic capabilities explores how businesses change enables enterprises to remain competitive. However, theory on dynamic capabilities still struggles to capture novelty, the essence of change. This study argues that a full understanding of strategic change requires us to sharpen our focus on real people and experiences; in turn, we must incorporate other faculties, which almost always operate alongside our logical ones, into our theory. We must pay more attention to the “non-rational” sides of ourselves—including, but not limited to, our imaginations, intuitions, attractions, biographies, preferences, and aesthetic faculties and capabilities. We argue that all such faculties, on the one hand, are central to our abilities to comprehend and cope with complexity and, on the other hand, foster novel understandings, potential responses, and social creativity. This study introduces the possibility of an alternative form of inquiry that highlights the role of poetic faculties in strategic behavior and change.http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/rae/article/view/68560/66297Dynamic capabilitiescreative actionpoeticsstrategic changetransformation. |
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| topic | Dynamic capabilities creative action poetics strategic change transformation. |
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