Dynamic Capabilities

Constance E. Helfat is the J. Brian Quinn Professor in Technology and Strategy at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Professor Helfat focuses her research on firm capabilities and knowledge, involving technological innovation and adaptation and change of firm capabilities over time. Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Will Mitchell is the J. Rex Fuqua Professor of International Management and Professor of Strategy at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Margaret A. Peteraf is Professor of Strategic Management and Organization at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Harbir Singh is the William and Phyllis Mack Professor at the Wharton School, and the Co-Director of the Mack Center for Technological Innovation. David J. Teece is the Mitsubishi Bank Professor and Director of the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Sidney G. Winter is the Deloitte and Touche Professor of Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

• List of Figures viNotes on Contributors viiPreface xi1. Dynamic Capabilities: Foundations 12. Managers, Markets, and Dynamic Capabilities 193. Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Processes 304. Executives, Dynamic Capabilities, and Strategic Change 465. Relational Capabilities: Drivers and Implications 656. Acquisition-Based Dynamic Capabilities 807. Firm Growth and Dynamic Capabilities 1008. Dynamic Capabilities: Future Paths and Possibilities 115Glossary of Terms 121List of Company Examples 123References 124Author Index 138Subject Index 142