How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible assets relevant to satisfying customer needs, and which cannot be readily replicated by competitors. Enterprises with strong dynamic capabilities are intensely entrepreneurial. They not only adapt to business ecosystems; they also shape them through innovation, collaboration, learning, and involvement. David Teece was the pioneer of the dynamic capabilities perspective. It is grounded in 25 years of his research, teaching, and consultancy. His ideas have been influential in business strategy, management, and economics, and are relevant to innovation, technology management, and competition policy. Through his consultancy and advisory work he has also brought these ideas to bear in business and policy making around the world. This book is the clearest and most succinct statement of the core ideas of dynamic capabilities. Teece explains their genesis, application, and how they offer an alternative approach to much conventional strategic thinking grounded in simplistic and outdated understandings of industrial organizations and the foundations of competitive advantage. Accessibly written and presented, it will be an invaluable and stimulating tool for all those who want to understand this important contribution to strategic thinking, be they MBA students, academics, managers, or consultants.

Managers are keenly aware that in today's economy the astute management of technology can advance not only the fortunes of the innovators, but also of society at large. In this book David Teece considers how firms can exploit technological innovation and protect their intellectual capital while staying ahead of the competition. He provides theoretical frameworks as well as practical advice, looking in particular at the organizational structures most likely to support innovation, and how managerial decisions and strategy affect the division of the gains. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and protect knowledge assets...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Bringing together ideas of leading thinkers in business strategy, organization studies, and innovation, this book explores the dynamics of competitiveness and the origins of the firm's capabilities. Contributors include David Teece, Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson, Mark Granovetter, Gary Hamilton, Martin Fransman, Keith Pavitt, and William Lazonick. (view table of contents)

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