The mediating effect of strategic orientation, innovation capabilities and managerial capabilities among exploration and exploitation, competitive advantage and firm’s performance

Jorge António Barbosa Ferreira (), Arnaldo Coelho and Laodicéia Amorim Weersma
Additional contact information
Jorge António Barbosa Ferreira: Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Arnaldo Coelho: Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Laodicéia Amorim Weersma: Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Contaduría y Administración, 2019, vol. 64, issue 1, 49-50

Abstract: This study employs a dynamic capability (hereafter DCs) perspective to examine the relationships among strategic orientation (SO), innovation capability (IC), managerial capabilities (MC) and exploration and exploitation capabilities on competitive advantage (CA) and firm’s performance. This paper proposes that the role of exploration and exploitation capabilities in these relationships differs between the three dimensions of strategy orientation (leadership cost-based strategies, and differentiation-based strategies and product-market scope) and performance. Modelling structural analysis was used to test the hypotheses in a sample of 387 Portuguese SME´s firms. The empirical findings indicate that innovation capability, managerial capabilities and strategic orientation positively mediate the relationship between exploration and exploitation capabilities and performance, whereas strategic orientation affects competitive advantage and performance. Finally, the study provides a discussion on the theoretical and managerial implications and directions for future research.

Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Exploitation and Exploration capabilities; Strategic Orientation, Innovation Capabilities, Managerial capabilities; Competitive Advantage and Performance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cya.unam.mx/index.php/cya/article/view/1918/1375 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nax:conyad:v:64:y:2019:i:1:p:49-50

Access Statistics for this article

Contaduría y Administración is currently edited by Francisco López-Herrera (Editors in Chief)

More articles in Contaduría y Administración from Accounting and Management Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Alberto García-Narvaez (Technical Editor) ().