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Unpacking Dynamic Capability: A Design Perspective

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This chapter reviews the dynamic capability literature to explore relationships between definition, operationalization, and measurement of dynamic capability. Subsequently, we develop a design-oriented approach toward dynamic capability that distinguishes between design rules, recurrent patterns of behavior, operating routines and processes, market and competitive conditions, and performance outcomes. This framework serves to develop a number of propositions for further research. As such, we integrate the literature on dynamic capability that primarily draws on economics, with a design-oriented approach.

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    We thank participants of the 23rd EGOS Colloquium and reviewers of our work submitted to the Academy of Management 2008 Annual Meeting for useful comments and suggestions. A special thanks to Samina Karim and editor Charles Snow, and to the other participants of The Third International Workshop on Organization Design, for their helpful comments.

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    Deborah E.M. Mulders & A. Georges L. Romme

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  1. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Haslegaardsvej 10, Aarhus V, 8210, Denmark

    Anne Bøllingtoft

  2. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Haslegaardsvej 10, Aarhus V, 8210, Denmark

    Dorthe Døjbak Håkonsson

  3. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Haslegaardsvej 10, Aarhus V, 8210, Denmark

    Jørn Flohr Nielsen

  4. Dept. of Management & Organization, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 16802, U.S.A.

    Charles C. Snow

  5. Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Haslegaardsvej 10, Aarhus V, 8210, Denmark

    John Ulhøi

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Mulders, D.E., Romme, A.G.L. (2009). Unpacking Dynamic Capability: A Design Perspective. In: Bøllingtoft, A., Håkonsson, D., Nielsen, J., Snow, C., Ulhøi, J. (eds) New Approaches to Organization Design. Information and Organization Design Series, vol 8. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0627-4_4

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