Organizational capabilities

Grant, R. M. 1996. Prospering in dynamically-competitive environments organizational capability as knowledge integration. Organization Science, 7(4) 375-387. 

The second requisite logic is what we call the delivery logic. This defines the operational and organizational capabilities that cost-effectively distribute products and services to customers consistent with... 

Since interlaboratory tests are a great logistical challenge, especially if there are a lot of participants, the personnel of the provider must have special organizational capabilities. To understand the problems associated with the analyses there must be technical... 

Organizational capabilities and the establishment of resource constraints prior to action will be better understood by all involved (and mostly by all those who have created the models). 

Read a bibliography of an historical figure you admire. Rate the person on his or her (1) character, (2) interpersonal dealings, (3) communications ability, (4) organizational capability, (5) balance between family and work, (6) technical skills, and (7) leadership ability. List a single anecdote from the person s life that is most telling of his or her nature as a person. 

In the capability framework presented, it has proven quite difficult to align validation activities between Level 3 and Level 4. The divide suggested is based on an established project-by-project capability of Level 3 compared to the ongoing inherent organizational capability of Level 4. In the framework. Level 4 equates to a fully compliant regime of validation for GMP. 

Potential bidders must be screened thoroughly to determine their technical competence as well as their organizational capability and/or willingness to meet project specific requirements, size fit, construction approach, etc. Contractors should not be placed on the bidders slate unless they are considered fully capable of performing quality work within the criteria established in the project execution plan. The criteria are the responsibility of the Project Manager, who must consider, as a minimum, the following factors ... 

The Owner has little or no control over the quality of the contractor s labor, supervision, and organizational capabilities. However, when contractors are selected through a careful and deliberate selection process, the most qualified are likely to be selected. 

Functional capabilities, on the other hand, are product-related. They involve organizational capabilities of the following kinds ... 

Thus, Du Pont s profits and its primary competitive strength resided in the product lines whose organizational capabilities had been shaped during the dramatic years of new product development as the polymer/petrochemical technology unfolded. The second major source of income and competitive strength derived from the capabilities developed in the 1920s and 1930s. In... 

Du Pout s experience helps to define the path-dependency of long-term corporate financial success. Long-established learned organizational capabilities function as the most durable base for maintaining competitive advantage in existing product lines. At the same time, they provide the soundest base for commercializing new ones. ... 

Air Products and Chemicals, like Rohm and Haas, remained within the boundaries of its learned organizational capabilities. More than Rohm and Haas and Hercules, it became a successful international competitor. Most noteworthy was its ability to focus its small chemical business to become a leader in a much more focused specialty chemical niche. 

I begin with the evolution of Exxon s chemical product lines during the postwar years, for they clarify how existing organizational capabilities define the limits of the company s potential for commercializing new products and processes. After reviewing the Exxon chemical story, the paths of learn-... 

The impact of World War II replicated that of World War I the German producers lost patents and facilities, as well as positions in world markets in both pharmaceuticals and chemicals, but not their organizational capabilities. Both Bayer and Hoechst quickly returned to North America. BASF had not focused on pharmaceuticals before the war, and made minimal investments in the postwar years. 

The organizational capabilities of soluble polythiophenes can be further enhanced by creating structures which retain a high degree of regioregularity... 

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