Capability reconfiguration of incumbent firms: Nintendo in the video game industry

Technovation

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 228-239

  Subramanian, Annapoornima M ^a   Chai, Kah Hin ^a   Mu, Shifeng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Competence; Dynamic capability; Game console; Resource based view of the firm

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATIONS; COMMON FEATURES; COMPETENCE; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; DYNAMIC CAPABILITY; DYNAMIC CAPABILITY PERSPECTIVE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; GAME CONSOLE; NINTENDO; RECONFIGURATION ABILITY; RESEARCH ISSUES; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW OF THE FIRM; TECHNOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT; THREE COMPONENT; US PATENTS; VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY; WEB CONTENT; WIKIPEDIA;

INDUSTRY; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79953314946     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2011.01.003     Document Type: Article

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