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External corporate venturing modes as new way to develop dynamic capabilities

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  • Enkel, Ellen
  • Sagmeister, Veronika

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Today, firms encounter scarce resources and rapid technology change which render formerly successful business models obsolete. Research shows that some firms perform better than others in continuously discovering, evaluating, and exploiting opportunities in volatile environments and that this is dependent on firm’s dynamic capabilities. Besides obtaining dynamic capabilities through internal R&D activities, firms have open up their innovation process to pursue dynamic capabilities outside their organizational boundaries through external corporate venturing by accessing startup's technological capabilities necessary to innovate. External corporate venturing is a means to develop new distinctive capabilities and businesses by exploring and exploiting business opportunities outside a firm’s existing boundaries. Drawing on the dynamic capability literature, we use a multiple case study approach to examine the contribution of external corporate venturing to firms’ dynamic capabilities. Our results reveal that firms indeed use corporate venturing to identify and exploit startup’s technological knowledge and competencies to increase firm’s dynamic capabilities. But our empirical data also shows that not every firm is fully profiting from all dynamic capability phases as their corporate venturing modes are not linked with each other and cumulative effects are not realized.

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  • Enkel, Ellen & Sagmeister, Veronika, 2020. "External corporate venturing modes as new way to develop dynamic capabilities," Technovation, Elsevier, vol. 96.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:techno:v:96-97:y:2020:i::s0166497218307983
    DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2020.102128
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