Abstract
This study will conceptualize antecedents of dynamic capabilities at the individual and organizational level. My focus is on network exploitation capability, defined as the ability of an organization to effectively “orchestrate” the combination of traditional and technology-enabled distribution channels for its product or service. My analysis has allowed me to reach four main results: (1) to distinguish individual antecedents from the organizational ones; (2) to list the individual and organizational antecedents in terms of sensing, seizing and reconfiguring; (3) to underscore the existing relationship between individual and organizational antecedents; to provide a small theoretical contribution to the literature concerning dynamic capabilities1.
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I’m grateful to Gabriele Piccoli for his helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper.
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Cabiddu, F. (2010). The Cross-Level Antecedents of Dynamic Capabilities Development: The Case of Network Exploitation Capability. In: D'Atri, A., De Marco, M., Braccini, A., Cabiddu, F. (eds) Management of the Interconnected World. Physica-Verlag HD. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7908-2404-9_52
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