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Dynamic Capabilities in Public Enterprises

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Dynamic capabilities; Fiji; Operational capabilities; Public administration

Definition

The dynamic capability view involves sensing opportunities and threats, seizing opportunities, and creating and maintaining competitiveness with reconfiguration. DCV helps explain how firms cope with changing environments.

Introduction

For the past two decades, a key issue affecting both policy makers and analysts is the poor capability of public organizations (Pollitt and Boukaert 2011), thus leading to reforms (Andrews et al. 2016). However, empirical evidence proves that organizations either struggle with implementation or fail to realize any professed benefits (Piening 2011).

In public administration, the issue of organizational performance has become very important (Rainey 2003). While the issue of why some reforming enterprises perform well while others do not, attracts a lot of interest, literature still fails to provide convincing explanations behind this. Hence the importance of...

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  1. School of Management & Public Administration, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji

    Jashwini Narayan

  2. Enterprise Innovation Unit – New Zealand Institute for Business Research, Waikato Management School, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Siggi Gudergan

  3. Graduate School of Business, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

    Raghuvar Dutt Pathak & Gurmeet Singh

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Narayan, J., Gudergan, S., Pathak, R.D., Singh, G. (2020). Dynamic Capabilities in Public Enterprises. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3951-1

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