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Center for Effective Organizations

Working Paper

The Development of New Organizational Capabilities

S. Mohrman, P. Docherty, A. Shani, A. Schenkel, R. Teigland. August, 2005

Developing new capabilities is a strategic necessity for many organizations. It entails extensive learning dispersed across complex activity fields that extend beyond the firm. We generate a model and present propositions about new capability development that integrate perspectives from the strategy, learning, and social capital and network literatures. The model includes learning processes, contextual mediators, and learning mechanisms that can be intentionally designed to foster requisite learning and the institutionalization of new capabilities.

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