• The Explanatory Study of the Content of Organizational Capabilities

Abstract

Studies that focus on the topics of core competence mostly depend on individual functions or organizational capabilities as their argumentation basis, therefore making organizational capabilities become the direct sources of enterprise competitiveness. Most of the past studies with emphasis on organizational capabilities are context or interface based, with discussions on effects of organizational performance on organizational capabilities, or effects of core functions on organizational performance or organizational capabilities, or cooperation relationship between organizational capabilities and strategies. While the majority of studies emphasize organizational capabilities on attributes or comprehensive perspectives, with only a few analyze on the content elements of organizational capabilities, therefore depriving a complete picture of the study. To differentiate from past studies themes, this study applies content analysis method, taking academic journals and practical references as study objects, exploring with emphasis on the content elements of organizational capabilities, in addition to obtaining approval on the 42 content elements of organizational capabilities from specialists; To clarify and make the categories more comprehensible, organizational capabilities are then grouped in categories with similar connotation and renamed as the leading organizational capability titles, resulting in a total of 16 leading categories of organizational capabilities. Therefore, the study objective targets on providing enterprises with a continuous and competitive aspect of content elements of organizational capabilities, through process and interpretation of stringent content analysis, as well as reliability testing.

Keywords: Organizational Capability, Content Elements of Organizational Capability, Content Analysis