Orchestrating for Performative Resource and Capability Configurations

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Schleimer, Stephanie
Knudsen, Mette
Faullant, Rita
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2022
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Value-adding orchestrations of resources and capabilities are at the heart of Penrose’s resource-base-view (RBV). However, while the management literature unanimously agrees on the im-portance of such resources and capabilities orchestrations for performance at the level of the firm, little research has investigated how performative firms orchestrate their resources and capabilities. This paper makes two significant contributions: Theoretically, it takes a performative lens to the RBV and thereby focuses specifically on the resource-capability orchestrations of firms with per-formative outputs. Empirically, the paper is one of the first to apply a configurational methodolo-gy to identify these performative resource-capability orchestrations by investigating 124 per-formative Danish manufacturing firms and their investments and deployments of innovative technology resources and human-centred capabilities. The paper finds that there are differences in the orchestration of resources and capabilities based on the innovativeness of the firm’s out-puts. Performative firms make heavy investments into and deployment of technologies, but only the configurations of the most performative firms additionally include investments into and de-ployments of specific human-centred capabilities. Important implications emerge in relation to what performativity theory can add to the original RBV and how a configurational methodology can operationalize this theory to bring new insights to academics and managers.

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Strategic Management Society (SMS) Special Conference

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Other commerce, management, tourism and services

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Schleimer, S; Knudsen, M; Faullant, R, Orchestrating for Performative Resource and Capability Configurations, 2022