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Objective: This study investigates how microenterprises utilize digital technologies to create frugal innovations that enable digital transformation in the context of emerging markets. The objective includes characterizing these innovations, identifying knowledge processes related to entrepreneurial bricolage, and examining how different bricolage patterns influence digital technology solutions. Methodology: The research is qualitative and exploratory, based on a case study of ten microenterprises located in an emerging region of Brazil. Semi-structured interviews and secondary data analysis were conducted. The analysis was supported by thematic categorization techniques using Atlas.ti software for data systematization, coding, and interpretation. Results: The microenterprises demonstrated dynamic capabilities of sensing, seizing, and transforming, as well as absorptive capacity, highlighting the use of bricolage to adapt simple technologies such as social networks (WhatsApp, Instagram), messaging applications, and marketplaces. These technologies were transformed into low-cost solutions for sales, marketing, logistics, and customer relations. The bricolage processes involved imitation and personalization, combining creativity and efficiency to overcome financial and structural constraints. The findings underscore frugal innovation as a central strategy for digital transformation, fostering organizational competitiveness and resilience. Originality and Value: This research contributes theoretically by integrating concepts of dynamic capabilities, bricolage, and frugal innovation, demonstrating their applicability in resource-constrained contexts. Practically, it offers insights for microenterprises and policymakers on overcoming financial and technological barriers through accessible and sustainable solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dilemma: the teaching case presents the dilema of a company in the marine shrimp segment, the Camarões Gesund, given the moments of crisis experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Return to export, considering previous experience, or focus on serving the domestic market by exploring new segments. Educational purpose: the case constitutes an opportunity for reflective learning and understanding of how the company's past experiences, either in coping with crises or in applying new strategies, contribute to the development of an organization's dynamic capabilities. Contextualization: this teaching case describes the challenging situations faced by Camarões Gesund in times of crisis, in particular the one caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. At a time when 90% of its revenue came from restaurants, they had to remain closed for more than one hundred days during the pandemic, maintaining, after this period, limitations on face-to-face service. In this sense, the aim of the case is to contribute to student's reflections in times of crisis experienced by the company, especially those generated by pandemic. Main theme: application of dynamic capabilities concepts in the assessment of situations and decision making in moments of crisis. Audience: Business Administration undergraduate courses and professionals in a technical or managerial career. Originality: in addition to presenting a dilemma in a pandemic context, an innovative aspect of the case is the analogy with the blindness novel as one of the points of reflection. From the didactic and pedagogical point of view, it is proposed alternatives for applying the case also in online classes, adopting interactive tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The main objective of this article is to identify the attitudinal antecedents of dynamic capacities. For this, the method of grounded theory was used. Design/methodology/approach: The data collection strategies used were oral history interviews of thematic life, and in-depth interviews. The method of constant comparisons and the processes of open, axial, and selective coding were also used. Results: Based on the substantive theory that emerged from the research field, it was concluded that individual capacities underpin the intrapreneurial attitudes of managers of innovation projects. These capacities are associated with the organizational capacities of perception (self-knowledge, autonomy, emotional evaluation, detail, and initiative), apprehension (positive perspective, abstraction, critical analysis, emotional control, creativity, satisfaction with learning, and strategic vision), and reconfiguration (argumentation, self-confidence, communication, discipline, empathy, active listening, flexibility, dealing with pressure, resistance to frustrations, and systemic vision). This aggregated analysis revealed emerging cognitive and emotional elements that differed from the routine aspects of project management, underpinning the intrapreneurial attitude of the managers participating in this study. Originality/value: The main contribution of this study is the identification of individual capacities and collective behaviors that act as attitudinal triggers for the organizational capacities of perception, apprehension, and reconfiguration of pro-innovation resources. Potentially, this contribution can be used by innovation project managers when conducting recruitment/selection and training processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to understand the process of developing adaptive capacity in a group of companies in the metal-mechanical sector, based on the state of Rio Grande do Sul, through an analysis of their behaviors and skills, routines and processes and mechanisms of learning and knowledge governance. The research was characterized as an empirical study of an applied nature, as it takes a qualitative and descriptive approach to the objectives. It was conducted through a multiple case study, investigating three organizations in detail. Based on the results, it is concluded that the company Gama is strongly oriented towards adaptation. The company Beta is more conservative and cautious, finding it more difficult to adapt. The third company, Alfa, adapts in accordance with the guidelines and its customers' requests. In terms of contributing to the advancement of studies on adaptive capacity, this study explores the organizational mechanisms that foster the development of this capacity in companies in the metalworking sector of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. It also explores a research perspective that is less common in studies on dynamic capacities, as these capacities (absorption, adaptive and innovative) are generally studied as a whole. In this study, the emphasis was on the instruments for the development of adaptive capacity, which are imposed on organizations as a result of the dynamism and speed with which changes are taking place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to investigate and describe how startup businesses located in the CUBO - a co-working space located in the city of São Paulo - develop dynamic capabilities, and how these capabilities contribute to innovation in their business models. In order to fulfil the proposed objective, this exploratory-descriptive research adopted the qualitative approach with the multiple case method, as well as semi-structured interviews as a strategy for the data collection. The data were analyzed using content analysis. Based on the four cases investigated, it was found that in general, the development of dynamic capacities was operationalized through the company's ability to perceive and then seize opportunities and manage threats, combining and recombining assets. It was also found that process of innovation business models itself acts as a dynamic capacity, contributing to the formation and creation of processes, routines and organizational behaviors for the innovation and development of the business in a systematic and purposeful way. It is concluded, therefore, that dynamic capacities can stimulate innovation in business models, especially in highly competitive, technological environments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical essay aims to demonstrate the differences between organizational competence and dynamic capability, using the conceptual framework of the process of continuous strategic adjustment as a backdrop to explore and illustrate these differences. It presents the theoretical context, exploring the model developed in the 1970s by Miles et al. which focuses on the existence of the process of continuous adjustment which, through the articulation of internal mechanisms, enables the organization to adapt to the strategic decisions made by its chief executive in response to the challenges and opportunities presented by its environment. This theoretical discussion addresses the differences between organizational competences and dynamic capabilities through their influence on the strategic adjustment process from three perspectives: (1) strategic role; (2) functionality, and (3) temporality. It shows that organizational competence includes capabilities and resources, and takes longer to adjust to the strategic process due to its sustainability function. Meanwhile, dynamic capabilities create, adjust and reconfigures internal resources and adjust more rapidly to the process, as they seek to reconfigure those processes. Based on this theoretical debate, it is suggested that these elements influence the process of ongoing strategic adjustment in different ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical essay analyzes the internal consistency of the main approaches of Dynamic Capabilities, recognizing the contradictions and similarities. It begins with a discussion of the pillars of the Resources Based View, before introducing the main definitions of Dynamic Capabilities, highlighting the role of organizational routines, organizational processes, and strategic processes, while keeping the focus on the reorganization of the resource base with the aim of achieving organizational efficiency. All these aspects seem to be common among the most referenced authors in the field. Performing a more in-depth analysis of the internal consistency of approaches, it is perceived that there are differences and contradictions that could lead to the misunderstanding that these are mutually exclusive, especially in the approaches of Teece, Pisano and Shuen (1997) and Eisenhardt and Martin (2000). The differences, which are not easily reconcilable, focus on the essence of the framework, and the potential of dynamic capabilities to explain how companies are able to sustain their competitive advantage and how to track these goals under conditions of rapid environmental changes. It concludes with the understanding that studies in the area should pay attention to the internal consistency of the dynamic capability approach used, also suggesting the possibility of using an integrative approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical essay investigates content related to resource orchestration. By incorporating the notion of complementary of resources that extend beyond the company boundaries, the "orchestration of innovation networks" is presented as a dynamic capacity to ensure management action on unshared and shared resources in a network in the model of open innovation. It presents some proposals based on the new insights gained, which can serve as a starting point for formulating research questions and problems to be investigated. In summary, the study provides (a) an integrated view of the literature in the field of strategy on the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities, and (b) extends the discussion of resource portfolio management beyond the company limits toward an understanding of resource orchestration (resource management and orchestration of assets), promoting a discussion of the dynamic capabilities in complementary fields of research, in this case, open innovation. This study will give managers of innovation networks more insight into management actions in the innovation network and enable companies to improve their performance and gain competitive advantage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]