Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge Management: an Integrative Role for Learning?*

By Mark Easterby-Smith, Isabel M. Prieto. 2008

700 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Modern strategic management theories try to explain why firms differ, because new sources of competitive advantage are keenly sought in the dynamic and complex environment of global competition. Two areas in particular have attracted the attention of researchers: the role of dynamic capabilities, and the firm's abilities for knowledge management. In this paper, we argue that there is a link between these two concepts, which has not been fully articulated in the literature. The aim of the paper is therefore to ascertain the conceptual connection between them as a basis for future research. Our proposed framework acknowledges and critiques the distinct roots of each field, identifies boundaries, and proposes relationships between the constructs and firm performance.

Subfields: Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/bf5f429e31cc752e4143cd22bc553313ac400804

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Strategy and Management

Citations in the corpus

Quo Vadis, Dynamic Capabilities? A Content-Analytic Review of the Current State of Knowledge and Recommendations for Future Research (2018, background): “…of performance and insteadhave focused onorganizational change as the dependent variable, examining changes in the resource base (Ambrosini, Bowman, & Collier, 2009; Stadler et al., 2013) and learning of various types (Agarwal, Echambadi, Franco, & Sarkar, 2004; Easterby-Smith & Prieto, 2008).”
Creating dynamic capabilities to increase customer value (2011, background): “As a result, dynamic capabilities are now considered to be an extension of the RBV (Ambrosini and Bowman, 2009; Ambrosini et al., 2009; Barreto, 2010; Bowman and Ambrosini, 2003; Daniel and Wilson, 2003; Easterby-Smith and Prieto, 2008; Macher and Mowery, 2009).”
Knowledge-based Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation in Networked Environments (2011, background): “The above literature in these two areas converged toward the same idea-the knowledge-related dynamic capabilities, which may promote our understanding and the validation of dynamic capabilities (Easterby-Smith and Antonacopoulou, 2006; Easterby-Smith and Prieto, 2008).”
Stages of Organizational Transformation in Transition Economies: A Dynamic Capabilities Approach (2010, positive): “Easterby-Smith and Prieto (2007) also explicitly identified both exploitation and exploration learning as antecedents to dynamic capabilities, exploration involving moving outside the boundaries of current practice.”