Knowledge-based Dynamic Capabilities and Innovation in Networked Environments

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to clarify the concept of dynamic capabilities from the knowledge‐based perspective and investigate the mechanisms of dynamic capabilities on innovation performance in networked environments.Design/methodology/approach – This paper designed a seven‐point Likert questionnaire measuring the dynamic capabilities, innovation performance and network embeddedness and a sample of 218 Chinese manufacturing firms were surveyed. Structural equation modeling method was used to statistically test the theoretical hypothesis.Findings – Significant relationships were found between dynamic capabilities and innovation performance and knowledge combination capability played a mediating role in this relationship. For the links between network embeddedness and dynamic capabilities, knowledge acquisition capability was affected mainly by relational embeddedness and the diversity of network and joint problem solving contributed much to knowledge combination capability.Research limitations...

[1]  M. Kotabe,et al.  The role of strategic alliances in high‐technology new product development , 1995 .

[2]  Dovev Lavie.  Alliance Portfolios and Firm Performance: A Study of Value Creation and Appropriation in the U.S. Software Industry , 2007 .

[3]  J. Hagedoorn,et al.  The effect of strategic technology alliances on company performance. , 1994 .

[4]  W. Powell,et al.  Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation: Networks of Learning in Biotechnology. , 1996 .

[5]  Isabel M. Prieto,et al.  Dynamic Capabilities and Knowledge Management: An Integrative Role for Learning? , 2008 .

[6]  B. Kogut.  The network as knowledge : Generative rules and the emergence of structure , 2000 .

[7]  Maurizio Zollo,et al.  Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities , 2002 .

[8]  W. H. Hoffmann.  Strategies for managing a portfolio of alliances , 2007 .

[9]  S. Winter.  Understanding dynamic capabilities , 2003 .

[10]  Nofal Nagles García.  Reseña de "Dynamic capabilities. Understanding strategic change in organizations" de Constance E. Helfat, Sydney Finkelstein, Will Mitchell, Margareth Peteraf, Harbir Singh, David J. Teece, Sidney Winter , 2010 .

[11]  Chia-Wen Chang,et al.  Embedded ties and the acquisition of competitive advantage , 2008 .

[12]  Lung-Tan Lu,et al.  International Joint Ventures , 2010 .

[13]  R. Gulati.  Network location and learning: the influence of network resources and firm capabilities on alliance formation , 1999 .

[14]  Amnon Frenkel,et al.  R&D, firm size and innovation: an empirical analysis , 2005 .

[15]  R. Gulati.  Alliances and networks , 1998 .

[16]  Joel A. C. Baum,et al.  Don't go it alone: alliance network composition and startups' performance in Canadian biotechnology , 2000 .

[17]  B. Nooteboom.  Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies , 2000 .

[18]  Oscar F. Bustinza,et al.  Explaining the Causes and Effects of Dynamic Capabilities Generation: A Multiple‐Indicator Multiple‐Cause Modelling Approach , 2013 .

[19]  Noel P. Greis,et al.  Firm size and dynamic technological innovation , 2002 .

[20]  John R. Harris,et al.  Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics , 1984 .

[21]  A. Zaheer,et al.  Bridging ties: a source of firm heterogeneity in competitive capabilities , 1999 .

[22]  Véronique Ambrosini,et al.  What are Dynamic Capabilities and are They a Useful Construct in Strategic Management? , 2009 .

[23]  Balaji R. Koka,et al.  The Reification of Absorptive Capacity: A Critical Review and Rejuvenation of the Construct , 2006 .

[24]  Elena P. Antonacopoulou,et al.  Organizational learning, knowledge and dynamic capabilities , 2006 .

[25]  Marjorie A. Lyles,et al.  Absorptive capacity, learning, and performance in international joint ventures , 2001 .

[26]  R. Gulati,et al.  STRATEGIC NETWORKS , 2000 .

[27]  Peter J. Lane,et al.  Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning , 1998 .

[28]  Mark S. Granovetter.  Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness , 1985, American Journal of Sociology.

[29]  R. Grant.  Chapter 8 – Prospering in Dynamically-Competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration , 1999 .

[30]  Anthony M. Pagano,et al.  International Joint Ventures , 1996 .

[31]  D. Teece,et al.  DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AND STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT , 1997 .

[32]  S. Hunt,et al.  The Commitment-Trust Theory of Relationship Marketing , 1994 .

[33]  D. Teece.  Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management: Organizing for Innovation and Growth , 2009 .

[34]  T. Das,et al.  Between Trust and Control: Developing Confidence in Partner Cooperation in Alliances , 1998 .

[35]  G. Huber.  Organizational Learning: The Contributing Processes and the Literatures , 1991 .

[36]  I. Nonaka.  A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation , 1994 .

[37]  Jan B. Heide.  Interorganizational Governance in Marketing Channels , 1994 .

[38]  B. Kogut,et al.  Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology , 1992 .

[39]  Henry Chesbrough,et al.  Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology , 2003 .

[40]  Kathleen M. Eisenhardt,et al.  DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES, WHAT ARE THEY? , 2000 .

[41]  Michele Grimaldi,et al.  A methodology to assess value creation in communities of innovation , 2012 .

[42]  Daniel A. Levinthal,et al.  ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION , 1990 .

[43]  Changiz Valmohammadi.  Investigating innovation management practices in Iranian organizations , 2012 .

[44]  S. Kotha,et al.  Knowledge Creation Through External Venturing: Evidence from the Telecommunications Equipment Manufacturing Industry , 2006 .

[45]  Alfred A. Marcus,et al.  EMBEDDED TIES AND THE ACQUISITION OF COMPETITIVE CAPABILITIES , 2005 .

[46]  Henk W. Volberda,et al.  Co-evolution of Firm Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Environment: Organizational Forms and Combinative Capabilities , 1999 .

[47]  Krsto Pandza,et al.  Creative Search and Strategic Sense-Making: Missing Dimensions in the Concept of Dynamic Capabilities , 2009 .

[48]  S. Zahra,et al.  Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension , 2002 .

[49]  Constance E. Helfat,et al.  Dynamic capabilities : understanding strategic change in organizations , 2007 .

[50]  Steven B. Andrews,et al.  Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition , 1995, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design.

[51]  D. Teece.  Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance , 2007 .