Strategic Management Journal Strat. Mgmt. J.‚ 21: 1105–1121 (2000) DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES: WHAT ARE THEY? KATHLEEN M. EISENHARDT* and JEFFREY A. MARTIN Department of Management Science and Engineering‚ Stanford University‚ Stanford‚ California‚ U.S.A. This paper focuses on dynamic capabilities and‚ more generally‚ the resource-based view of the firm. We argue that dynamic capabilities are a set of specific and identifiable processes such as product development‚ strategic decision making‚ and
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CASE ANALYSIS MEMO TO: Samsung Management FROM: Team 3 DATE: March 27‚ 2014 SUBJECT: Samsung Case Analysis Executive Summary Samsung Electronics Company (Samsung) is a South Korean multinational electronics manufacturer with headquarters in Suwon‚ South Korea. It’s a flagship subsidiary of the Samsung Group and by the end of 2004 was responsible for $78.5 billion of the group’s $135 billion revenue (Chang & Siegel‚ 2009). It is a major manufacturer of component
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What are capabilities? What must firms do to create capabilities? Capability is a capacity for a set of resources to integratively perform a stretch task. It represents the identity of the firm as perceived by both its employees and customers. It is the firm’s ability to perform better than competitors using a distinctive and difficult to replicate set of business attributes. The organization’s capability is comprised of three core assets – physical capital‚ including all tangible assets; technology
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Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies (CAHRS) CAHRS Working Paper Series Cornell University ILR School Year 2005 A Resource-Based View Of International Human Resources: Toward A Framework of Integrative and Creative Capabilities Shad S. Morris Cornell University Scott A. Snell Cornell University Patrick M. Wright Cornell University This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@ILR. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cahrswp/284 CAHRS at Cornell University 187 Ives Hall Ithaca
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Process capability studies determine whether a process is unstable‚ investigate any sources of instability‚ determine their causes‚ and take action to resolve such sources of instability. After all sources of instability have been resolved in a process‚ the natural behavior of the process is called its process capability. Process capability compares the output of a process (called “Voice of the Process”) with the customer’s specification limits for the outputs (called “Voice of the Customer”). A
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high quality over commodities The capability to tailor products to precise customer needs has generated a positive synergy for Samsung allowing the company to charge a premium for their niche component architecture. This competence of creating over 1‚200 different products has given rise to a series of interrelated reactions that are hard to imitate (inimitable) by others but are continually replicated by Samsung (appropriable). In this practice Samsung has developed close relationships with
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Samsung Electronics Galaxy Tab Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 1.0 Industry Overview 5 1.1 Industry Summary
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11 [pic]"Imagine the Possibilities" Executive summary: Samsung is such a brand name in the world that has been leading the business sector for over 70 years. Having the punch line of “Imagine the possibilities”‚ it has opened a door for people to get gadgets and appliances beyond expectation and expand their imagination. Samsung has been dedicated to making a better through diverse businesses that today span advanced technology‚ semiconductors
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Growth Strategy Analysis Of Samsung Economics of Strategy INTRODUCTION The Samsung Group is a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town‚ Seoul‚ South Korea. It is the world’s largest conglomerate by revenue with annual revenue of US$173.4 billion in 2008 and is South Korea’s largest chaebol. The meaning of the Korean word Samsung is "TriStar" or "three stars". As stated in its new motto‚ Samsung Electronics’ vision for the new decade is‚ "Inspire the World‚ Create
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Samsung group is a multinational company located in South Korea. It was founded in 1938 by Lee Byung-chull and since then great changes took place). At the beginning Samsung was a small trading company with forty employees. After the Korean War in 1954 Samsung grown up and entered several industries. It will take about three decades since its creation (1938) before it enters the electronics industry. Moreover‚ it will take another three decades to rise into a multinational organisation (1990). It
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