Dynamic Capabilities
History and an Extension

This Element studies the development of salient ideas and publications on dynamic capabilities.

Bart Nooteboom (Author)

9781009014182, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 August 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 0.4 cm, 0.116 kg

The development of salient ideas and publications on dynamic capabilities is given, extended by ideas outside the literature of strategic management. Dynamic capability is presented as an interdisciplinary subject to which knowledge is central. Diversity of knowledge is treated in terms of cognitive distance, limited through organisational focus. To deal with diversity, development and uncertainty, evolutionary theory and the notion of entropy are used. The relation between individual and organisational knowledge is modelled with the notion of a script and linguistic ideas. The governance of collaborative relations for innovation is discussed, including trust, which are also dynamic capabilities.

1. Dynamic capabilities
1.1. Concepts and findings
1.2. Criticism
2. Knowledge and learning
2.1. Epistemology
2.1.1. Scripts
2.1.2. Causality
2.2. Knowledge as a process
2.2.1. Cycle of discovery
2.2.2. Entrepreneurship
2.2.3. Language
3. Organisation as an entity
3.1. Cognitive distance
3.2. Organisational focus
3.3. Networks
3.4. Entropy
4. Organisation as a process
4.1. Innovation
4.2. Evolution
4.2.1. Evolutionary organisation theory
4.3. Governance
5. Conclusions and further research.

Subject Areas: Business innovation [KJD], Business & management [KJ]