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The dynamic capability framework has been the subject of great concern in the strategy, management and economy ields of work on account of the bearing it has to help understand the way how companies are facing changes in the setting where they work: A core issue within the context of open markets and global economies. Nonetheless, strong controversy has been sprouting up around these subjects, a controversy which should be identiied and solved so as to allow for this framework to be further expanded on as a consolidated theoretical body of thought. A survey is being made in this paper of the main areas of debate, and promissory research lines are being put forwards on the basis of a set of relevant papers being published since 1997, and being selected according with the number of times these papers have been included as footnotes quotes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing upon research indings of some authors, this paper is putting forwards a novel deinition of organizational capabilities pinpointing the nature, features and potential of this notion. This deinition suggests an alternative solution to the dificulty to establish a typology of organizational capabilities. The two components making up such a deinition are exempliied on the basis of a case analysis, i.e., the dialogic nature engrained in the governance capacity, and the dual dimension characterizing the way how such organization capabilities are being put into practice. Thus, such a deinition provides for an explicit and coherent conceptual basis for further research endeavours to be undertaken vis-à-vis organizational capabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]