Abstract
While strategic agility is increasingly acknowledged as a critical source of innovation and product development performance (PDP), little attention has been paid to the micro-individual capabilities that translate strategic agility into greater PDP. This study examines the mediating roles of employee resilience and self-efficacy as key dynamic micro-level (individual) capabilities that connect firms’ strategic agility to their PDP in the emerging market of Türkiye. We draw on dynamic capabilities theory, adopt a microfoundations approach, and run a multilevel analysis using data from 758 managers working in 185 firms to test our hypotheses. We draw on the microfoundations of PDP and provide important insights into how individual capabilities enable attaining higher PDP in emerging markets. In particular, the findings suggest that strategic agility is positively associated with PDP. Also, the impact of strategic agility on PDP -both examined at the organizational level- is conveyed through individual-level capabilities of employee resilience and self-efficacy. Our study makes significant theoretical contributions to innovation and product development, operations management, and strategic agility research and draws managerial implications.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1598 - 1612 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management |
| Volume | 71 |
| Early online date | 20 Nov 2023 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2024 |
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Keywords
- Strategic agility
- product development performance
- employee resilience
- selfefficacy
- microfoundations
- emerging markets
- multilevel analysis