A lot has been said about strategic purchasing: it contributes to the firm's strategic dialogue, acquires important resources from outside the firm, and plays a vital role in the achievement of the firm's long-term goals. Practice, however, demonstrates the difficulty of translating these...

This paper contributes to the clarification of the connections between knowledge management and dynamic capabilities in the context of product development to see how they explain product development competences. Building on the knowledge management and dynamic capabilities literatures, the paper...