Strategic Orientations and Dynamic Capabilities: Evidence from Korea

ISBN-13: 9783330010055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 128 str.

Aaron Stephens

Opis

This study combines three strategic orientations: market orientation, learning orientation, and entrepreneurial orientation to show how these orientations affect exploration and exploitation to benefit the international performance of Korean firms. This model identifies a process of information creation, movement, and exploitation by firms. The dynamic capabilities framework and ambidexterity theory are employed to explain how these orientations affect a firm's absorption capability, adaptation capability, and innovation capability to provide better international performance. Firms that embrace the three aforementioned orientations can improve knowledge exploration and exploitation to benefit international performance. This study provides implications for Korean managers operating internationally, and a model that confirms the role of strategic orientations, dynamic capabilities, and their effects on international performance.

O autorze

Dr. Aaron Stephens is an assistant professor at Dongguk University in Gyeongju, South Korea. He has an MBA from Ball State University and a PhD in international trade from Pusan National University. His graduation dissertation was awarded the annual distinguished Korean Association of International Business Management Award for Best Dissertation