Selection Capability: How Capability Gaps and Internal Social Frictions Affect Internal and External Strategic Renewal
研究了企业能力缺口和内部社会摩擦如何影响其选择内部开发或外部获取能力的方式，进而影响战略更新和生存，基于国际电信行业的调查与纵向数据。
The dynamic capabilities literature suggests that firms need to use both internal development and external sourcing to thrive over time, but we have a limited understanding of the conditions that best suit different sourcing choices. This study examines how constraints that arise from firms' existing stocks of capabilities and from their internal social contexts shape their choices of capability-sourcing modes and, in turn, their ability to obtain new capabilities. Thus, the research focuses on an underemphasized form of dynamic capability: the ability to select appropriate modes of capability sourcing. We test the arguments with a survey and longitudinal survival study of the international telecommunications industry. We find intriguing variations in the way that firms' selection capability influences their ability to renew their capabilities and, ultimately, to survive.