Constance E. Helfat & Sydney Finkelstein 
Dynamic Capabilities 
Understanding Strategic Change in Organizations

Creating, adapting to, and exploiting change is inherently
entrepreneurial. To survive and prosper under conditions of change,
firms must develop the ‘dynamic capabilities’ to
create, extend, and modify the ways in which they operate. The
capacity of an organization to create, extend, or modify its
resource base is vital.

Since the concept of dynamic capabilities was first introduced,
much research has elaborated the initial idea. This important book
by Constance Helfat and her team of leading scholars provides a
timely focus on in-depth examples of corporate dynamic
capabilities. Examining these in the different contexts of
alliances, acquisitions, and management, the book gives students
and researchers a succinct, up-to-date definition of dynamic
capabilities and the strategic management theories around them.

Table des matières

Notes on Authors.

Foreword.

1. Dynamic Capabilities: Foundations.

2. Managers, Markets, and Dynamic Capabilities.

3. Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Processes.

4. Executives, Dynamic Capabilities, and Strategic Change.

5. Relational Capabilities: Drivers and Implications.

6. Acquisition-Based Dynamic Capabilities.

7. Firm Growth and Dynamic Capabilities.

8. Dynamic Capabilities: Future Paths and Possibilities.

Glossary of Terms.

List of Case Examples.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index

A propos de l’auteur

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.