The dynamic capability view (DCV) addresses how firms renew their competences to respond to shifting environmental conditions. However, this view continues to suffer from theoretical and methodological limitations that constrain empirical investigation. This paper argues that whether a firm...

We conduct a longitudinal case study of the top five U.S. defense systems integrators between 1998 and 2007 to examine their response to the massive environmental change triggered by the 9/11 attacks. We collected and organized data around a set of fine-grained measures to analyze, over time and...

Path dependence is a central construct in organizational research, used to describe a mechanism that connects the past and the future in an abstract way. However, across institutional, technology, and strategy literatures, it remains unclear why path dependence sometimes occurs and sometimes...

In stigmatized industries characterized by social contestation, hostile audiences, and distancing between industry insiders and outsiders, firms facing media attacks follow different strategies from firms in uncontested industries. Because firms avoid publicizing their tainted-sector membership,...

Le papier vise à développer une contribution à la fois théorique et méthodologique au sein du courant des capacités dynamiques, qui s’intéresse à la façon dont les entreprises modifient leurs ressources et capacités opérationnelles pour répondre à des changements dans leur...