... on dynamic capabilities, acknowledging not only what assets the company have developed and currently are exploiting, but also how these assets were develop and managed (i.e. enhanced, combined, protected and potentially reconfigured) to sustain long-term competitiveness. Design/methodology/approach...

... conceptualises absorptive capacity as a dynamic capability, and recognises its capacity to influence the creation of operating routines through external knowledge acquisition, transformation, assimilation and exploitation. Lane et al.’s (2006) model brings exploratory learning into the absorptive...