Dynamic capabilities? Unleashing their dynamics through a practice perspective on organizational routines
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in: Journal of Management Inquiry, Jahrgang 30, Nr. 4, 10.2021, S. 395-406.
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T1 - Dynamic capabilities?
T2 - Unleashing their dynamics through a practice perspective on organizational routines
AU - Wenzel, Matthias
AU - Danner-Schröder, Anja
AU - Spee, A. Paul
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s) 2020.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - The current conceptualization of dynamic capabilities entails a paradox, one that hampers the achievement of one of the framework’s main missions: While studies on dynamic capabilities claim to offer explanations of continuous, routine-based organizational change, their prevalent conceptualization of organizational routines is rather undynamic and less prone to change. Thus, we propose to draw on an alternative, practice-based understanding of organizational routines to unravel the “dynamics” of dynamic capabilities. The practice perspective captures and explains the internal dynamics of organizational routines and positions the performance of organizational routines as a source of both organizational stability and change. This perspective offers to deepen our understanding of the dynamics within dynamic capabilities as driver of routine-based organizational change. To foster a research agenda that advances our understanding of dynamic capabilities from a practice perspective on organizational routines, we provide onto-epistemological, theoretical, and methodological implications of such a “dynamic view” of dynamic capabilities.
AB - The current conceptualization of dynamic capabilities entails a paradox, one that hampers the achievement of one of the framework’s main missions: While studies on dynamic capabilities claim to offer explanations of continuous, routine-based organizational change, their prevalent conceptualization of organizational routines is rather undynamic and less prone to change. Thus, we propose to draw on an alternative, practice-based understanding of organizational routines to unravel the “dynamics” of dynamic capabilities. The practice perspective captures and explains the internal dynamics of organizational routines and positions the performance of organizational routines as a source of both organizational stability and change. This perspective offers to deepen our understanding of the dynamics within dynamic capabilities as driver of routine-based organizational change. To foster a research agenda that advances our understanding of dynamic capabilities from a practice perspective on organizational routines, we provide onto-epistemological, theoretical, and methodological implications of such a “dynamic view” of dynamic capabilities.
KW - Management studies
KW - dynamic capabilities
KW - organizational change
KW - organizational routines
KW - routine dynamics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084602270&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1056492620916549
DO - 10.1177/1056492620916549
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 30
SP - 395
EP - 406
JO - Journal of Management Inquiry
JF - Journal of Management Inquiry
SN - 1056-4926
IS - 4
ER -