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  • 1.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-22-2007 20:40

    Dear colleagues,

     

    Greetings!

     

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Ying Hong

     

    Department of Human Resource Management
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
    <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">94 Rockafeller Road</st1:address></st1:street>
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Piscataway</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">08854-0854</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

     

     



  • 2.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 09:12

    Dear Ying Hong

     

    If you run across an instrument that measures strategic capability, please let me know as well

     

    Thanks in advance

     

    ----Walter

     

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    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong
    Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:40 PM
    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: strategic capabilities

     

    Dear colleagues,

     

    Greetings!

     

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Ying Hong

     

    Department of Human Resource Management
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
    <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">94 Rockafeller Road</st1:address></st1:street>
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Piscataway</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">08854-0854</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

     

     



  • 3.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 10:34

    Ying,

     

    There have been some attempts to operationalize capabilities using stochastic frontier estimation. See for instance:

    CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING CAPABILITIES: METHODOLOGY AND EMPIRICAL APPLICATION. By: Dutta, Shantanu; Narasimhan, <st1:place w:st="on">Om</st1:place>; Rajiv, Surendra. Strategic Management Journal, Mar2005, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p277-285

     

    Sergey Anokhin

    Kent State U.

     

    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong
    Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:40 PM
    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: strategic capabilities

     

    Dear colleagues,

     

    Greetings!

     

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Ying Hong

     

    Department of Human Resource Management
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
    <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">94 Rockafeller Road</st1:address></st1:street>
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Piscataway</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">08854-0854</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

     

     



  • 4.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 11:48
    Ying, in a paper forthcoming in SMJ I develop and use a survey based measure of an aspect of dynamic capability: second-order competence (the competence to build new competences).

    I will be happy to send the working paper to any requester. Please send request to erwin@wpi.edu<mailto:erwin@wpi.edu> (don't reply to list).

    Here is the abstract of the paper:

    ORGANIZATIONAL ANTECEDENTS OF SECOND-ORDER COMPETENCES
    According to dynamic capability theory some firms are better able than others at altering their resource-base by adding, reconfiguring, and deleting resources or competences. This study focuses on the first form of dynamic capability: the competence to build new competences. Two such second-order competences are studied: the abilities to explore new markets and to explore new technologies, called marketing and R&D second-order competences, respectively. Using two wave panel data on a sample of U.S. public manufacturing firms, five organizational antecedents of these second-order competences are examined: willingness to cannibalize, constructive conflict, tolerance for failure, environmental scanning, and resource slack. Willingness to cannibalize, constructive conflict, scanning, and slack have contemporaneous effects, while scanning also has a lagged effect and slack has a U-shaped lagged effect on marketing and R&D second-order competences.

    Erwin Danneels, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    erwin@wpi.edu
    (508) 831 5181
    www.mgt.wpi.edu/People/Danneels
    ________________________________
    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong [hongying@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU]
    Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:39 PM
    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: strategic capabilities

    Dear colleagues,

    Greetings!

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

    Best wishes,

    Ying Hong

    Department of Human Resource Management
    Rutgers University
    94 Rockafeller Road
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    Piscataway, NJ 08854-0854


  • 5.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 12:59

    Ying,

     

    One suggestion I can offer is to review the literature and build measures from the theoretical foundations for the capabilities you are interested in examining. For example, Winter (2003) offers a great basis to construct items to measure both ordinary and dynamic capabilities.

     

    Winter, S. 2003. Understanding Dynamic Capabilities. Strategic Management Journal 24(10): 991-996.

     

    Measuring capabilities, then testing if they are strategic or not may also be a better approach than trying to measure "strategic" capabilities ex ante.

     

    You may also wish to check out Scott Newbert's (2007) meta-analysis of empirical work on RBV, which could probably serve as guide to identify papers employing similar measures you could leverage. Armstrong and Shimizu also have another related study that is forthcoming in JOM.

     

    Newbert, S. 2007. Empirical research on the resource-based view of the firm: an assessment and suggestions for future research. Strategic Management Journal 28(2): 121-146.

     

    If you send me a note directly, I can also share some other measures with you from working papers. Other authors may also be willing to do the same if you include your direct contact info in BPS-Net postings.

     

    Best of luck with your dissertation work.

     

    Regards,

     

    Paul

     

    Dr. Paul Louis Drnevich, Ph.D.
    Department of Management & Marketing, <u2:place w:st="on"><u2:placetype w:st="on">University</u2:placetype></u2:place> of <u2:placename w:st="on">Alabama</u2:placename>
    <u2:address w:st="on"><u2:street w:st="on">361 Stadium Drive, Box 870225</u2:street>, <u2:city w:st="on">Tuscaloosa</u2:city>, <u2:state w:st="on">Alabama</u2:state>  <u2:postalcode w:st="on">35487-0225</u2:postalcode></u2:address>
    Work: (205) 348-0153 | Mobile: (205) 799-8002      | E-mail: dren@ua.edu

    Roll Tide! 

    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong
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    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: strategic capabilities

     

    Dear colleagues,

     

    Greetings!

     

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Ying Hong

     

    Department of Human Resource Management
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
    <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">94 Rockafeller Road</st1:address></st1:street>
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Piscataway</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">08854-0854</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

     

     



  • 6.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 14:05
    Dear Ying,
    We have developed a survey-based measure for three components of HR flexibility - skill, behavior, and HR practice flexibility, in our paper

     

    Bhattacharya, M., Gibson, D., & <st1:personname>Doty</st1:personname>, D. H. 2005. The effects of flexibility in employee skills, employee behaviors, and HR practices on firm performance. Journal of Management, 31(4), 622-640.

     

    Also see measures of strategic flexibility in

    Nadkarni, S. & Narayan, V. K. 2007. Strategic schemas. strategic flexibility, and firm performance" the moderating role of industry clockspeed. Strategic Management Journal, 28(3), 243.

     

    Best,

    Mousumi Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
    Associate Professor
    Charles F. Dolan School of Business
    Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 06824
    Phone: (203) 254-4000 ext. 2893
    Fax: (203) 254-4105
    E-mail: mbhattac@mail.fairfield.edu 
     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong
    Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:40 PM
    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: strategic capabilities

    Dear colleagues,

     

    Greetings!

     

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Ying Hong

     

    Department of Human Resource Management
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Rutgers</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>
    <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">94 Rockafeller Road</st1:address></st1:street>
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Piscataway</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">NJ</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">08854-0854</st1:postalcode></st1:place>

     

     



  • 7.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 15:03
    Erwin:

    Could you please provide me with a copy of the forthcoming paper.

    Regards,

    Leyland

    At 11:48 AM 10/23/2007, you wrote:
    >Ying, in a paper forthcoming in SMJ I develop and use a survey based
    >measure of an aspect of dynamic capability: second-order competence
    >(the competence to build new competences).
    >
    >I will be happy to send the working paper to any requester. Please
    >send request to erwin@wpi.edu<mailto:erwin@wpi.edu> (don't reply to list).
    >
    >Here is the abstract of the paper:
    >
    >ORGANIZATIONAL ANTECEDENTS OF SECOND-ORDER COMPETENCES
    >According to dynamic capability theory some firms are better able
    >than others at altering their resource-base by adding,
    >reconfiguring, and deleting resources or competences. This study
    >focuses on the first form of dynamic capability: the competence to
    >build new competences. Two such second-order competences are
    >studied: the abilities to explore new markets and to explore new
    >technologies, called marketing and R&D second-order competences,
    >respectively. Using two wave panel data on a sample of U.S. public
    >manufacturing firms, five organizational antecedents of these
    >second-order competences are examined: willingness to cannibalize,
    >constructive conflict, tolerance for failure, environmental
    >scanning, and resource slack. Willingness to cannibalize,
    >constructive conflict, scanning, and slack have contemporaneous
    >effects, while scanning also has a lagged effect and slack has a
    >U-shaped lagged effect on marketing and R&D second-order competences.
    >
    >Erwin Danneels, Ph.D.
    >Associate Professor
    >erwin@wpi.edu
    >(508) 831 5181
    >www.mgt.wpi.edu/People/Danneels
    >________________________________
    >From: Business Policy and Strategy List [BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu]
    >On Behalf Of Ying Hong [hongying@EDEN.RUTGERS.EDU]
    >Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:39 PM
    >To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    >Subject: strategic capabilities
    >
    >Dear colleagues,
    >
    >Greetings!
    >
    >I was very interested in the concept of strategic
    >capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating
    >it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer
    >service strategies and management architecture. I have not come
    >across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however,
    >or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be
    >converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind
    >to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished
    >measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities.
    >Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.
    >
    >Best wishes,
    >
    >Ying Hong
    >
    >Department of Human Resource Management
    >Rutgers University
    >94 Rockafeller Road
    >Phone: 732-445-5451
    >Piscataway, NJ 08854-0854


  • 8.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 10-23-2007 17:44

    I measured the presence of capabilities in my dissertation and later publications:

     

    McGrath, R.G., I.C. MacMillan, S. Venkataraman. 1995. Defining and developing competence:  A strategic process paradigm. Strategic Management J. 16 251-275.

     

     

    McGrath, R.G., M.H. Tsai, S. Venkataraman, I.C. MacMillan. 1996. Innovation, Competitive Advantage and Rent:  A Model and Test. Management Sci. 42(3) 389-403.

     

    Good luck,

     

    Rita

    Rita Gunther McGrath
    Associate Professor
    Columbia Business School
    Armstrong Hall, 2880 Broadway
    4th Floor
    New York, NY 10025
    tel: +1 (212) 854-6155
    www.columbia.edu/~rdm20
    rdm20@columbia.edu

     

    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of ANOKHIN, SERGEY
    Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:34 AM
    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: Re: strategic capabilities

     

    Ying,

     

    There have been some attempts to operationalize capabilities using stochastic frontier estimation. See for instance:

    CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING CAPABILITIES: METHODOLOGY AND EMPIRICAL APPLICATION. By: Dutta, Shantanu; Narasimhan, Om; Rajiv, Surendra. Strategic Management Journal, Mar2005, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p277-285

     

    Sergey Anokhin

    Kent State U.

     

    From: Business Policy and Strategy List [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong
    Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:40 PM
    To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    Subject: strategic capabilities

     

    Dear colleagues,

     

    Greetings!

     

    I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation, which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Sorry for cross-posting.

     

    Best wishes,

     

    Ying Hong

     

    Department of Human Resource Management
    Rutgers University
    94 Rockafeller Road
    Phone: 732-445-5451
    Piscataway, NJ 08854-0854

     

     



  • 9.  strategic capabilities

    Posted 11-05-2007 12:19
    For a process that provides structure and hence the prospect of strategic
    capabilities measurement, see www.strategic-mmanagement.ca

    al barnhill, Able Administration Ltd.

    I measured the presence of capabilities in my dissertation and later
    > publications:
    >
    >
    >
    > McGrath, R.G., I.C. MacMillan, S. Venkataraman. 1995. Defining and
    > developing competence: A strategic process paradigm. Strategic
    > Management J. 16 251-275.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > McGrath, R.G., M.H. Tsai, S. Venkataraman, I.C. MacMillan. 1996.
    > Innovation, Competitive Advantage and Rent: A Model and Test.
    > Management Sci. 42(3) 389-403.
    >
    >
    >
    > Good luck,
    >
    >
    >
    > Rita
    >
    > Rita Gunther McGrath
    > Associate Professor
    > Columbia Business School
    > Armstrong Hall, 2880 Broadway
    > 4th Floor
    > New York, NY 10025
    > tel: +1 (212) 854-6155
    > www.columbia.edu/~rdm20
    > rdm20@columbia.edu
    >
    >
    >
    > ________________________________
    >
    > From: Business Policy and Strategy List
    > [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of ANOKHIN, SERGEY
    > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:34 AM
    > To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    > Subject: Re: strategic capabilities
    >
    >
    >
    > Ying,
    >
    >
    >
    > There have been some attempts to operationalize capabilities using
    > stochastic frontier estimation. See for instance:
    >
    > CONCEPTUALIZING AND MEASURING CAPABILITIES: METHODOLOGY AND EMPIRICAL
    > APPLICATION.
    > <http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/viewarticle?data=dGJyMPPp44rp2%2fdV0%2bn
    > jisfk5Ie46bZLsa21Tbek63nn5Kx95uXxjL6nrkewqa1Krqa1OK%2bmuEqzsK9PnrfLPvLo3
    > 4bx1%2bGM5%2bXsgeKzq0m1qrdNs6m1Ubec6nns3bt97JziervY8oCk6t9%2fu7fMPt%2fku
    > 0m0prdNtK%2bxPuTl8IXf6rt%2b8%2bLqbOPu8gAA&hid=101> By: Dutta, Shantanu;
    > Narasimhan, Om; Rajiv, Surendra. Strategic Management Journal, Mar2005,
    > Vol. 26 Issue 3, p277-285
    >
    >
    >
    > Sergey Anokhin
    >
    > Kent State U.
    >
    >
    >
    > ________________________________
    >
    > From: Business Policy and Strategy List
    > [mailto:BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu] On Behalf Of Ying Hong
    > Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 8:40 PM
    > To: BPS-NET@AOMLISTS.pace.edu
    > Subject: strategic capabilities
    >
    >
    >
    > Dear colleagues,
    >
    >
    >
    > Greetings!
    >
    >
    >
    > I was very interested in the concept of strategic capabilities/dynamic
    > capabilities and was thinking of incorporating it into my dissertation,
    > which looks at the fit between customer service strategies and
    > management architecture. I have not come across any quantitative
    > measures of strategic capabilities, however, or any concrete and
    > comprehensive definitions of it that can be converted into a measure. I
    > was wondering if anyone will be so kind to point me to the right source
    > or share with me any unpublished measures of this or other related
    > concept such as HR capabilities. Your help will be greatly appreciated!
    > Sorry for cross-posting.
    >
    >
    >
    > Best wishes,
    >
    >
    >
    > Ying Hong
    >
    >
    >
    > Department of Human Resource Management
    > Rutgers University
    > 94 Rockafeller Road
    > Phone: 732-445-5451
    > Piscataway, NJ 08854-0854
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >