DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES IN A TRANSIENT ADVANTAGE CONCEPT VIEW: BUILDING KNOWLEDGE THROUGH INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEW
Dynamic Capabilities. Transient Advantage. Competitive Advantage.
Strategy studies central theme is the understanding of how organizations manage and maintain competitive advantage over their competitors. Among the theories concerned with this the Dynamic Capabilities Theory turns out to be a relatively recent theory in the field of organizational studies that has gained attention among researchers, receiving attention as an evolution from the already entrenched Resource Based Theory, presenting concepts that meet its critics and trying to complement and meet its improvement possibilities. However, although it has been refined and widely studied over the past decades, its literature still presents inconsistencies and different theoretical and analytical cuts utilization resulting in the existence of different conceptions of what are dynamic capabilities, how to identify them and what’s its main purpose . Considering that scientific research reveals itself as a unique instrument in the pursuit of knowledge about the complexity of the phenomena’s form in a way that reframing it and promoting a look at its reality reveals itself as a duty of scholars and researchers in each area, it’s aimed to observe and discuss the criteria and theoretical and epistemological assumptions underpinning the competitive advantage transience’s concept approach in the definition of Dynamic Capabilities. Therefore, this will be a qualitative theoretical study through a systematic literature review combined with content analysis technique for purposes of selection and analysis of the most actual and relevant scientific papers according to search, inclusion and exclusion criteria as defined in the survey.