Please excuse the cross postings.
We are writing to seek your assistance in a research project relating to dynamic capabilities research.
Over the past year we have been using machine-based text analysis software to examine 107 published papers on the topic (up to and including 2011).
Our work goes beyond a number of recent citation-based papers and looks at the nature of the text, the meaning of the concepts utilized and their relationships. At this point we are interested in supplementing this machine-based work with a short survey of those scholars working in the field. The goal is not just to see the degree to which the viewpoint of scholars aligns with that discovered by text analysis but also the degree to which there is consistency or heterogeneity in the field as to the key aspects of dynamic capabilities.
The link below directs you to the survey. It should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. This is a very general call to management scholars, particularly PhD students and others who are working in the field but may not have published their work (as we have already completed this survey with those whose papers we have analyzed).
We should also note that the point of the survey is to provide two different perspectives on an interpretation of the literature and hence there is no right or wrong way to answer the survey. You can access the survey at the link below. You are also free to pass this onto graduate students and others working in the field.
http://www.super.socialchoicesurvey.com/DCR/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=DCR&ID=0&hid_pagenum=1&hid_link=1&hid_javascript=1 We thank you in advance for your participation and should you want more detail on the survey and the paper please feel free to contact us. We will be presenting this work a number of conferences this year, including SMS in Atlanta.
Yours Sincerely,
Timothy Devinney, Grahame Dowling & Ralf Wilden
Professor of Strategy
The University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway | NSW | 2007
Australia
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