What's holding back empirical research into organizational capabilities? Remedies for common problems

摘要

Recent commentary on state of research in strategic management points to excessive attention to theory development and deficiencies in the empirical testing of these theories (Bettis, 2012; Miller and Tsang, 2010; Oxley et al., 2010). This criticism is especially pertinent to research into organizational capabilities, where empirical verification of constructs and relationships has lagged far behind conceptual and theoretical developments (Arend and Bromiley, 2009; Leiblein, 2011; Newbert, 2007). Despite a growing methodological sophistication in using statistical tests to ensure some dimensions of validity, fundamental impediments to reliability and validity in identifying and measuring organizational capabilities remain unrecognized and unresolved.