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Analyzing organizational capabilities as systems: A conceptual framework

Arasti, M ; Sharif University of Technology | 2016

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. Publisher: International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference , 2016
  3. Abstract:
  4. Operational capabilities are used in resource based view in strategic management literature to explain how the difference in performing similar activities results in heterogeneity between firms. In order to advance our understanding of this concept, using a system metaphor, we try to shape a framework for micro-level analysis of operational capabilities. Following two stages of holism and focus for identifying system boundaries through looking related literatures, we propose knowledge, skills and tools as general micro elements of operational capabilities in form domain. Using Dependency Structure Matrix (DSM), we finally synthesize our conceptual framework to capture interactions of aforementioned micro elements and to show how this system works toward sub activities in function domain which their integration to a whole provides the firm with an operational capability. This paper is the first step in using a system metaphor to investigate organizational capabilities and paves the way for future researches of its kind
  5. Keywords:
  6. Form domain ; Interactions ; Micro-level analysis ; System analysis ; Beam plasma interaction ; Management science ; Sustainable development ; Systems analysis ; Dependency structure matrixes ; Function domain ; Literature reviews ; Micro level ; Operational capabilities ; Organizational capabilities ; System metaphor ; Project management
  7. Source: 18th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference: Sustainability in Modern Project Management, DSM 2016, 29 August 2016 through 30 August 2016 ; 2016 , Pages 67-76