The resource‐based view (RBV) and the dynamic‐capabilities approach (DCA) have emerged as two important frameworks in strategic management that seek to explain why firms are different. In recent years operations management scholars have sought to integrate both RBV and DCA within the field's...

Purpose – This paper sets out to discuss the results of a specific part of a Europe‐wide Delphi study that considers issues of absorptive capacity in European manufacturing. Owing to the importance to competitiveness of increasing innovative capabilities in manufacturing it is highly...

An investigation of the ways in which personal contact networks help small businesses to achieve competitive advantage is presented, along with recommendations for the development of more synchronous support mechanisms.Following a review of research indicating that learning and performance...