Sub-theme 66: Organizational Capability Building: Dynamics, Creative Processes, Failures
Convenors:
Christian Berggren, Linköping University, Sweden
Georg Schreyögg, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, & University of Graz, Austria
Solmaz Filiz Karabag, Linköping University, Sweden
Session I: Thursday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Capability Building: Foundations
Chair: Georg Schreyögg
Anna Jonsson
Organizational
capability building: A case study of an EMNE’s quest for learning
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tom Elfring and Kim Klyver
Frank Schirmer and Silke Geithner
Organizational capability development from the viewpoint of cultural-historical activity theory
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Divya Sharma, Sankalp Pratap, Agam Gupta and Arqum Mateen
Selen Kars-Unluoglu and Alex Kevill
Affective foundations of capability development: An exploration in an SME context
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christian Berggren, Jörg Sydow and Fredrik Tell
Session II: Thursday, July 06, 14:00 to 15:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Capability Building: Processes
Chair: Solmaz Filiz Karabag
Jacques J. Orvain, Frédérique Chédotel and Caroline Ruiller
Capabilities building through distributed monitoring
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Stefan Bernat
Christian Berggren, Jörg Sydow and Fredrik Tell
Capabilities to integrate expanding diversity and absorb increasing depth. Paths of knowledge integration and knowledge absorption
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Fabrizio Pini, Barbara Quacquarelli and Emmanuelle Rigaud Lacresse
Johanna Gruenauer and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Simple rules as bridges between individual heuristics and the organization: Capability identification, building & refinement
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Valentin Langholf and Uta Wilkens
Session III: Friday, July 07, 09:00 to 10:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Building Interorganizational Capabilities
Chair: Christian Berggren
Thibaut Bardon, Nicolas Arnaud and Florence Villesèche
Building inter-organizational capability at shop-floor level: From chatting to strategizing
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Alexander Bell
Daojuan Wang and Thomas Schøtt
Building capability through networking with investors and researchers: Co-creating financing and innovation in startups
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Maarten Hillebrandt and Michael Huber
Divya Sharma, Sankalp Pratap, Agam Gupta and Arqum Mateen
Avoiding competence trap: A micro-foundational analysis of capability development in a network
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Isar Kiani and Pouya Seifzadeh
Session IV: Friday, July 07, 11:00 to 12:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Emerging Relational Capabilities
Chair: Christian Berggren
Lance Cosaert, Henk W. Volberda and Jatinder S. Sidhu
Cumulative? Opening the black box of absorptive capacity: A meta-analytical review of the micro mechanisms
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Milano-Mayan Elise and Evelyne Rouby
Stefan C. Bernat Jr. and Solmaz Filiz Karabag
Accumulating capabilities through R&D: Studies on Brazilian defence projects
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Frank Schirmer and Silke Geithner
Tom Elfring and Kim Klyver
Mobilizing resources by emerging organizations: Networking capability to sense and seize opportunities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Marion Neukam
Session V: Friday, July 07, 14:00 to 15:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Building Dynamic Capabilities
Chair: Georg Schreyögg
Fabrizio Maria Pini, Barbara Quacquarelli and Emmanuelle Rigaud Lacresse
Change by (the offer of a new) meaning. Innovating business models to support rich brand narratives: The role of dynamic capabilities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Jacques J. Orvain
Milano-Mayan Elise and Evelyne Rouby
Microfoundations of dynamic capability building: The exploratory case of a Mexican community-based enterprise
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Lance Jordan Cosaert, Henk W. Volberda and Jatinder Singh Sidhu
Rene Sehi and Jörg Funder
Why giants fail to innovate: An empirical study on the self-reinforcing mechanisms impeding firms’ dynamic capabilities
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Wolfgang H. Gutter and Johanna Gruenauer
Session VI: Saturday, July 08, 09:00 to 10:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Learning and Capability Building
Chair: Solmaz Filiz Karabag
Alexander Bell
Exploration and exploitation dynamics: Capability building and renewal in high-growth start-ups
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Anna Jonsson
Joakim Netz and Ari Ginsberg
Competing through heterarchy: Socializing dynamic capabilities coevolution in the multibusiness firm
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Thibaut Bardon, Nicolas Arnaud and Florence Villesèche
Isar Kiani and Pouya Seifzadeh
Learning from semantic inconsistencies as the origin of dynamic capabilities in MNCs: Evidence from pharmaceutical MNCs
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Daojuan Wang and Thomas Schøtt
Session VII: Saturday, July 08, 11:00 to 12:30, FG 2C7 (2nd floor)
Special Aspects of Capability Building
Chair: Christian Berggren
Michael Huber and Maarten Hillebrandt
Performance-oriented resource allocation in German higher education: LOMs as a capacity-building exercise
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Selen Kars-Unluoglu and Alex Kevill
Valentin Langholf and Uta Wilkens
(New) employment relationships and dynamic capabilities – Theoretical outline and empirical evidence
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Joakim Netz and Ari Ginsberg
Marion Neukam
About proximity and growth at the fuzzy front-end of discontinuous innovations
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Rene Sehi and Jörg Funder