TY - JOUR

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 -