Dynamic gap bridging and realized gap set development: The strategic role of the firm in the coevolution of capability space and opportunity space

Giovanni Battista Dagnino () and Marcello M. Mariani ()
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Giovanni Battista Dagnino: University of Catania
Marcello M. Mariani: University of Bologna

A chapter in Innovation, Industrial Dynamics and Structural Transformation, 2007, pp 321-341 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Building on the hypothesis that firm strategy is fundamentally a dynamic process of gap bridging between capability space and opportunity space, this paper investigates the strategic role of the firm in the coevolution of the capability space and the opportunity space. In more detail, it contributes to the strategy literature by introducing and discussing a typological distinction of a few dynamic gap sets (i.e., potential gap set, realized gap set, deliberate gap set, emergent gap set), which are deployed in a comprehensive conceptual framework underscoring the causes and consequences of the gap sets evolution. Additionally, the framework proposed is able to shed new light on the received distinction between deliberate and emergent strategies, and to reconnect them to the objectives of innovation and execution they aim to achieve. This intellectual effort allows us to synthesize the dichotomy, already familiar to strategy investigation, between strategy formulation and strategy implementation and to enhance the hermeneutic and interpretive capacity of the conceptual backbone of this work. In an integrative fashion, whereas strategy formulation refers to the firm’s mindful predisposition of the capabilities required to bridge the strategy gap between capabilities and opportunities, strategy implementation is concerned with the ‘real’ operational closure of the strategy gap.

Keywords: Capability space; Opportunity space; Dynamic gap bridging; Co-evolutionary framework; Typology; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-49465-2_17

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