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TY - JOUR
T1 - What drives business transformation?
T2 - Evidence from manufacturer-retailer networks
AU - Mouzas, Stefanos
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Business Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Business Research, 143, 2022 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.053
PY - 2022/4/30
Y1 - 2022/4/30
N2 - While it is well established in literature that firms innovate and transform themselves in the face of discontinuous change, our knowledge of what drives business transformation remains limited. How and why are firms able to transform themselves and what are the implications for our body of knowledge? To understand what drives business transformation, we need to look into firms’ abilities to reconfigure resources in order to innovate. The resources that firms need to transform themselves are usually not available within the organization. Business transformation appears to be a contingent phenomenon that requires the efficacy of interactions between firms within a multiplicity of entitlements. Interactions explain how firms pursue business transformation. Entitlements explain why firms are able to pursue business transformation. This study offers new insights into the transformative potential of entitlements as a bundle of rights, duties and capabilities that firms possess, acquire, and transfer to other business actors in order to transform their businesses.
AB - While it is well established in literature that firms innovate and transform themselves in the face of discontinuous change, our knowledge of what drives business transformation remains limited. How and why are firms able to transform themselves and what are the implications for our body of knowledge? To understand what drives business transformation, we need to look into firms’ abilities to reconfigure resources in order to innovate. The resources that firms need to transform themselves are usually not available within the organization. Business transformation appears to be a contingent phenomenon that requires the efficacy of interactions between firms within a multiplicity of entitlements. Interactions explain how firms pursue business transformation. Entitlements explain why firms are able to pursue business transformation. This study offers new insights into the transformative potential of entitlements as a bundle of rights, duties and capabilities that firms possess, acquire, and transfer to other business actors in order to transform their businesses.
KW - Discontinuous change
KW - Transformation
KW - Entitlements
KW - Interaction
KW - Networks
U2 - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.053
DO - 10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.01.053
M3 - Journal article
VL - 143
SP - 282
EP - 293
JO - Journal of Business Research
JF - Journal of Business Research
SN - 0148-2963
ER -