Dynamic Capabilities

Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations

Constance E. Helfat, Sydney Finkelstein, Will Mitchell, Margaret Peteraf, Harbir Singh, David Teece, Sidney G. Winter

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9781405159043
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781405182065
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Decision Making
• Index: Business

Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change, firms must develop the "dynamic capabilities" to create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its resource base is vital.

Since the concept of dynamic capabilities was first introduced, much research has elaborated the initial idea. This important book by Constance Helfat and her team of leading scholars provides a timely focus on in-depth examples of corporate dynamic capabilities. Examining these in the different contexts of alliances, acquisitions, and management, the book gives students and researchers a succinct, up-to-date definition of dynamic capabilities and the strategic management theories around them.

Table of contents

• Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Dynamic Capabilities: Foundations
• 2 Managers, Markets, and Dynamic Capabilities
• 3 Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Processes
• 4 Executives, Dynamic Capabilities, and Strategic Change
• 5 Relational Capabilities: Drivers and Implications
• 6 Acquisition-Based Dynamic Capabilities
• 7 Firm Growth and Dynamic Capabilities
• 8 Dynamic Capabilities: Future Paths and Possibilities
• Glossary of Terms
• List of Company Examples
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index