A relational embeddedness perspective on dynamic capabilities: A grounded investigation of buyer-supplier routines
A relational embeddedness perspective on dynamic capabilities: A grounded investigation of buyer-supplier routines
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DOI：
10.1016/j.indmarman.2019.10.003
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发表时间：
2020-02-01
影响因子：
10.3
通讯作者：
Srai, Jagjit
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作者：
Alinaghian, Leila;Kim, Yusoon;Srai, Jagjit
我们的研究通过阐明企业如何通过供应商关系开发和调整其资源基础，扩展了新兴的企业间动态能力理论。具体来说，我们的目标是探索不同的嵌入关系方面如何一起或单独发挥作用，以引发各种公司间的例程，这些例程可能会支撑购买公司的动态能力。该研究设计是一项多重案例研究，涉及制药、航空航天和快速消费品领域三个跨国采购公司的六个产品组的 34 个买方-供应商二元级创新活动。我们的归纳分析表明，关系嵌入的社会、认知和物理方面以累积顺序的方式发挥着作用，在买方-供应商二元组中诱导出三种独特的常规类型——单边、准单边和双边，它们分别支撑着三个动态能力集群——感知、抓住和转换。此外，我们的研究还确定了两种意外情况，可以解释观察和推论中的差异。因此，我们研究了公司间环境中动态能力的“黑匣子”，阐明了这些关系中关系嵌入和模式化活动（例程）的作用和关联。
Our study extends the emerging inter-firm-level theorization of dynamic capabilities by articulating how firms can develop and adapt their resource bases through supplier relations. Specifically, we aim to explore how different embedded relational aspects function together or separately to induce various inter-firm routines that presumably underpin the buying firm's dynamic capabilities. The research design is a multiple case study involving 34 buyer-supplier dyad-level innovation events across six product groups of three multinational buying firms in the Pharmaceuticals, Aerospace, and Fast-Moving Consumer Goods sectors. Our inductive analysis suggests that the social, cognitive, and physical aspects of relational embeddedness play roles, in a cumulatively sequential fashion, in inducing three distinctive routine types-unilateral, quasi-unilateral, and bilateral-in the buyer-supplier dyads that underpin the three clusters of dynamic capabilities-sensing, seizing, and transforming, respectively. Furthermore, our study identifies two contingencies that explain variances in the observations and inferences. We therefore investigate the 'black box' of dynamic capabilities in inter-firm contexts, elucidating the roles and association of relational embeddedness and patterned activities (routines) in these relationships.