Dynamic capabilities (DC) are said to be a source of firm's sustainable competitive advantage
(SCA) in a rapidly changing business environment, but the dynamic capabilities framework (DCF)
is still developing. Especially, many recent studies have focused on the microfoundations of DC,
but since they are different from the theoretical microfoundations of DCF, the studies on the
microfoundations of DC are not enough to establish DCF as a theory. The aim of this study is to
present the hierarchical behavioral principle as a new behavioral assumption of firms, which can
be one of theoretical microfoundations of DCF. Firms that follow this behavioral principle seek
to maximize their profits in the low-order business environment that has already been realized,
and ensure their profits in the high-order business environment as a set of options for possible
environments. This study considers the logical consistency of DCF based on this behavioral
assumption, the falsifiability of hypotheses derived by the framework and the empirical validity of
the hypotheses, through the modeling of the hierarchical behavioral principle and its application
to a business case. As a result, it was shown that the behavioral principle established a theoretical
microfoundation of DCF, which could deduce the basic statement of DCF regarding SCA.
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