Performance under conditions of change - Dynamic capabilities

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Which change in view on organizations, stated by Penrose came with the thoughts on continous change?

That organizations are not bureaucratic, but rather enterprises that scan the environment for opportunities that can only be seized with good resources (dynamic capabilities)

What are the 2 main tasks of succesful entrepreneurs?

1. Scanning for opportunities
2. Realizing that the organization is capable of seizing the opportunities, the entrepreneurially oriented management invests in a set of organizational resources that allow growth through seizing opportunities.

What is the dynamic resource based theory?

The original ones focus on quality and uniqueness of resources.

Here we focus on resource that allow organizations to ‘enterprise’: dynamic resources: The competence to continuously integrate, reconfigure, renew and recreate resources.

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What is the dynamic capability theory?

rapidly create situation specific knowledge, adapt to it and use this to leas change. It is about the organizational competence in changing and adapting its resources to deals with dynamic environments.

What is the human resource scalability capability?

Speed with which organizations can adjust the quality and quantity of the workforce

What did Atkinson mean with the flexible firm?

Increase flexible workforce by a layer of temporary workers besides permanent ones.

1. Group of core employees with permanent contracts -> functional flex (scope KSA)
2. Pheripheral employees -> temporary = quantitative/numerical flex
3. Employees without a contract

Organizational learning capacity

The ability to access information ouside -> bring it in -> learn -> convert to new knowledge (absorptive)

For organizational learning strong social ties are needed as the capacity depends on social process of KL transfer.

A higher learning capacity is a workforce with willingness to share and acquire KL

Organization capacity for innovation by March and SImon

Differentiate and specialize -> balance

1. Exploitation (core): become better at what you do, improve specialisme

2. Exploration: Be aware of changes in environments and experience with new ways (enough resources needed)

What is successfull innovation?

Integrating the existing expertise with KL acquired from borader context.
Having sufficient resources to exploitate while stimulate an open mindset to outside world to find new KL

Which 3 theories contribute to getting dynamic capabilities for continuous change?

1. Workforce flexibility -> dynamic capability
2. Knowledge transfer -> absorptive capability
3. Exploration/Exploitation  -> innovative capability

Individual employees are available when needed with skills to contribute to learning and innovation

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