Concurrent learning: How firms develop multiple dynamic capabilities in parallel
研究了企业如何同时发展多种动态能力，基于陶氏化学20年间的收购、合资和剥离数据，提出了“并行学习”的理论框架，对管理增长和分布式实践有启示。
Much is known about the importance of dynamic capabilities. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how multiple dynamic capabilities might be developed in parallel, since most existing work explores a particular dynamic capability in isolation. Using rich quantitative and qualitative data on D ow C hemical's acquisitions, joint ventures, and divestitures over the past 20 years, we seek to address this gap. Besides contributing by adding fresh insights about managing growth and the utility of distributed practice, and by shedding light on positive and negative experience transfer, our core contribution is an emergent theoretical framework that develops the concept of “concurrent learning. ” Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.