@PHDTHESIS{ 2017:329422675,
 	title = {Dynamic capabilities in action : on the interrelation between biographical data and business practices},
 	year = {2017},
 	url = "http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/7978",
 	abstract = "Previous studies highlighted the importance of the cognition resource for the existence of
 dynamic capabilities. Lately, scholars acknowledge dynamic managerial capabilities. We
 here explore that dynamic capability is not a matter of typology. It is about uniqueness. We
 suggest that dynamic capability serves both individual and firm levels and that it is visible
 when it plays a role in mediating individual and firm relationship. We define the individual
 as the business pioneer, who act as the entrepreneur, manager, and leader while performing
 firm?s history since its ideation, passing through different business transformations. We
 define the firm as a transient system, intentionally resource-articulated to achieve higher
 business purpose through the relationship it establishes with the environment. We conducted
 a biographical narrative investigation, combined with a series of interviews with key
 scholars, and qualitative analysis of three biographical narrative reconstructions where we
 came up with facts to suggest that dynamic capabilities can only really exist "in action",
 while individual and firm relationship develop as a living state of strategic adjustment.",
 	publisher = {Pontif?cia Universidade Cat?lica do Rio Grande do Sul},
 	scholl = {Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Administra??o e Neg?cios},
 	note = {Escola de Neg?cios}
}