جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "dynamic capabilities" در نشریات گروه "اقتصاد"

The development of agility capabilities، accountability، and rapid adaptation to environmental changes are considered to be instruments for achieving a competitive advantage. Strategic agility is a developed type of agility which، besides rapid accountability، pays specific attention to the strategic aspect and to the prediction of changes in the urban environment before they occur. Most studies in agility-related and competitive-advantage field have been conducted on production agility as well as supply chain agility. In addition to clarifying the concept of strategic agility and the determining factors whereof، the current research aims at investigating into the effect of strategic agility on competitive advantage of manufacturing firms in the city of Semnan to help economic development of the city. Hence، at first، a model was devised for the competitive advantage based on dynamic capabilities theory، and، then، the model was confirmed by the results obtained from factor analysis، multiple regression analysis، and correlation coefficient indexes. The results indicated that the strategic agility has a significant effect on the competitive advantage of manufacturing firms in the city of Semnan. Besides، from among competitive advantage factors، strategic agility is highly correlated with innovation. Moreover، resource fluidity has been known to be the most significant factor in achieving a competitive advantage.

Nowadays, although the role of new firms in creating jobs, innovation and competition has been known during the first years of their establishment, their failure rate is higher. Researches often focus on the external factors causing the failure, while internal factors have been less considered. This article aims to identify the internal factors affecting new firm's performance. To this end, an initial framework is developed to define objectives and design policies in the new firm's performance. Independent variables are classified into four main groups. They include financial resource, absorptive capacity at individual level, absorptive capacity at organizational level and marketing abilities. Financial performance, market performance and customer performance have been taken into account as dependent variables. The role of the mentioned independent variables is examined on the performance of 308 firms in the city of Tehran. Questionnaire is used to collect the data over the period 2007-2008. The findings show that the explanatory variables significantly predict the performance of the new firms. Among internal factors, absorptive capacity at individual level considering some aspects of human capital as well as social network of employees and entrepreneurs have the major determinants of the firm's performance.