Creating and developing organisational capabilities do we know more than we can say?

Organisational capital and competence building

“…Helfat and Peteraf's (2003) discussion of a 'capability life cycle' serves to reinforce the notion that capabilities evolve over time through various stages such as birth, growth and decline. However, what we understand about the capability development process itself is a matter of degree, given that research in this area has been less systematic, particularly in relation to providing empirical verifi cation at the micro process level (Bakhru, 2007). One exception is Montealegre's (2002) study, which demonstrates how development of a capability in e-commerce at a stock exchange itself relied upon the existence of other key resources and capabilities.…”