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Salter, Ammon, Criscuolo, Paola, Grohsjean, Thorsten and Opsahl, Tore (2013) The chosen ones. The selection of capabilities in professional service firms. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2013 (1). 10828. doi:10.5465/AMBPP.2013.177 ISSN 0065-0668.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2013.177
Abstract
How do organizations select between different capabilities and what factors lead organizations to break away from their past investments? Using a micro-foundations approach to understand capability emergence, this paper suggests that organizations’ display a strong ‘preference-for-cumulativeness’ in the selection of capabilities and that this preference is present at both the knowledge domain and individual level. It then argues that both endorsements by senior leaders and external collaboration may enable organizations to deviate from the ‘preference-for-cumulativeness’. These ideas are tested on a unique, multi-source dataset of R&D projects selection in a leading professional service firm. Implications for theories of capabilities are advanced.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Proceedings | ||||
| Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||
| ISSN: | 0065-0668 | ||||
| Official Date: | 1 January 2013 | ||||
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| Volume: | 2013 | ||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||
| Article Number: | 10828 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.5465/AMBPP.2013.177 | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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