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Organisational capabilities and learning in complex product systems: towards repeatable solution

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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:11 authored by Andrew DaviesAndrew Davies, Tim Brady
This paper suggests that Chandler's (Chandler, A.D., 1990. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA.) organisational capabilities framework can be modified to explain how suppliers of complex product systems (CoPS) build the capabilities necessary to expand successfully into new lines of business. In addition to Chandler's functional and strategic capabilities, we propose the concept of ‘project capabilities’ to refer to important CoPS activities of bid preparation and project execution. An organisational learning cycle model is presented to show CoPS firms can move from the first bid or project of its kind in a new domain of business, to achieve what we call ‘economies of repetition’ by putting in place organisational changes, routines and learning processes to provide a growing number of similar bids and projects more efficiently and effectively.

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  • Published

Journal

Research Policy

ISSN

0048-7333

Publisher

Elsevier

Issue

7-8

Volume

29

Page range

931-953

ISBN

0048-7333

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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