Publications

Article

Dynamic Capabilities at IBM: Driving Strategy into Action

By: J. Bruce Harreld, Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman

Keywords: Strategy; Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Computer Industry

Research Summary

Interfirm Alliances as Mechanisms to Access and Exploit Technological Capabilities

How do firms choose alliance partners, and how do alliances affect the subsequent evolution of partners' technological capabilities? Silverman is examining how pre-alliance 'technological overlap' between firms influences partner selection. He is also examining... View Details

October 2023
Article

Finding New Business and Developing Relevant Sales Capabilities

By: Frank V. Cespedes

There are few alternatives to growth for most companies. It’s the rare firm whose goal involves getting smaller and, for employees, there is a strong correlation between their company’s growth rate, promotion opportunities, and job satisfaction. But a growth strategy... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Sales

Article

Competing through Development Capability in a Manufacturing-based Organization

By: S. C. Wheelwright and K. B. Clark

Keywords: Competition; Growth and Development; Organizations; Manufacturing Industry

1995
Working Paper

Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning

By: Michael Beer

summer 1992
Article

Capabilities and Capital Investment: New Perspectives on Capital Budgeting

By: C. Y. Baldwin and K. B. Clark

Keywords: Capital; Investment; Capital Budgeting

October 2006
Article

Location Choices across the Value Chain: How Activity and Capability Influence Collocation

By: Juan Alcacer

There has been a recent revival of interest in the geographic component of firm strategy. Recent research suggests that two opposing forces—competition costs and agglomeration benefits—determine whether firms collocate in a given geographic market. Unexplored is (1)... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Sales; Research and Development; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Markets; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Telecommunications Industry

2008
Other Paper

Historical Matching and Organizational Capabilities in the US Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis

1996
Article

Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning

By: Michael Beer and Russell Eisenstat

Keywords: Growth and Development; Organizations; Strategy; Learning

June 1995
Teaching Note

Intel Corporation - Leveraging Capabilities for Strategic Renewal TN

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda

Teaching Note for (9-394-141). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry

Purchase

2003
Working Paper

Innovation Streams and Ambidextrous Organizational Designs: On Building Dynamic Capabilities

By: Michael Tushman, Wendy Smith, Robert Wood, George Westerman and Charles O'Reilly

1995
Article

Technological Evolution, System Architecture, and the Obsolescence of Firm Capabilities

By: Marco Iansiti and T. Khanna

Keywords: Information Technology; System; Design

1996
Chapter

Developing an Organization Capable of Strategy Implementationand Reformulation: A Preliminary Test

By: Russell Eisenstat and M. Beer

Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy

June 2015
Case

Becton Dickinson: Developing the Capability to Innovate 'Outside the Home Court'

By: Ian W. Mackenzie, Lawrence A. Bennigson and Frank Leonard

Educators

Purchase

Article

Leading the High Capability Organization: Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and James Heskett

1991
Article

Job Satisfaction, Service Capability and Customer Satisfaction: An Examination of Linkages and Management Implications

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Jeffrey Zornitsky

Survey data from 1,277 employees and 4,269 customers of a personal lines insurance organization were analyzed with the following results: (a) employee perceptions of service quality are positively related to both job satisfaction and self-perceived service capability;... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Satisfaction; Jobs and Positions; Customer Satisfaction

04 Jan 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Historical Change and the Competitive Advantage of Firms: Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani

2025
Working Paper

Too Much, Too Soon? Early Funding, Technological Unconventionality, and Innovation Capabilities

By: Harsh Ketkar and Maria Roche

The availability of financial resources significantly shapes firm innovation outcomes, especially for early-stage, innovation-focused technology firms. However, prior research has provided conflicting findings about this relationship: On the one hand, resource... View Details

Keywords: Startups; Technology Strategy; Novelty; Unconventionality; Resource Constraints; Early Stage Firms; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurial Finance

SSRN

2008
Article

Market Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities

By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran

This study focuses on whether more-productive firms are more likely to adopt process innovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry; United States