Microfoundations of organizational capabilities
Subtitle: empirical evidence from Indian software services
By: a dissertation presented by Bradley Ross Staats
Contributors: Harvard Business School
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Teams in the workplace; Organizational learning
Description: This dissertation explores how organizational capabilities become embedded in teams through the mechanism of team familiarity (i.e. previous shared work experience). To provide a theoretical foundation for my analysis, I bring together conceptual streams from operations, strategy, and organizational theory on the determinants of learning. I develop and test predictive models of how team familiarity influences capability effectiveness. I show that organizational capabilities grow through ties between organizational actors.
Notes: Thesis (D.B.A.)--Harvard Business School, 2009.

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