Title: Microfoundations of organizational capabilities
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.
Subjects: Teams in the workplace, Organizational learning