Research Note: The Creation of Capabilities in New Ventures—A Longitudinal Study
实证研究了管理在新创企业能力创造中的作用，发现子单元专门董事和高管团队规模影响能力创造，而CEO背景无显著影响。
The role of the organization's resources and capabilities in its competitive advantage, and, by extension, its performance, has become a topic of renewed interest. Although the importance of capabilities is the basis of much of this research, there is little work which investigates how capabilities are actually created. This paper empirically assesses the role of management in the creation of capability within organizations over time. Of five hypotheses, two were fully supported, and partial support was found for a third. We find that managerial advocacy in the form of specialized directors of sub-units, and the number of executives on the top management team, influence capability creation as does the existence of formalized rules related to resource allocation. CEO background was found to have no effect. The results present the initial outlines of how competencies might be created and suggest avenues for further inquiry.