How to create dynamic capabilities: A design science study
采用设计科学方法，学者与从业者合作解决企业同时管理多个依赖同一资源池的项目挑战，并开发出流程技术工具，展示了如何创建动态能力。
Dynamic capability (DC) theories are widely used by innovation scholars, but there is little empirical work that applies these theories in ways that can be used by practitioners. Moreover, DC studies tend to suffer from tautological issues when measurements of DC overlap with those of firm performance. To fill this void, this paper explores how scholars can help companies in creating a dynamic capability. We adopt a design science approach in which scholars and practitioners team up to address and resolve a focal firm's (micro-DC) challenge in managing a large number of product development projects that run simultaneously but all depend on the same resource pool. To address this challenge, we design and implement a process technology tool. This study thus demonstrates how one can solve a real-life DC challenge by developing a practically relevant solution, based on design science. • We investigate how scholars can help develop a company's dynamic capability (DC). • Design science research (DSR) informs the collaboration between practitioners and scholars. • The DSR cycle effectively operationalizes the DC activities of sensing, seizing and reconfiguring. • The core artifact is a tool for simultaneously managing a large number of projects that draw on the same resources. • The problem-solving nature of DSR resonates well with the jargon used by managers.