Technology Organization Strategic Adaptability Research Paradigm Change Environment

Strategic flexibility is commonly recognized as an important weapon for sustainingcompetitive advantage in dynamic environment and many companies have investedheavily on monitoring the technological trends, manage the organizational knowledge.Researchers have investigated strategic flexibility, absorptive capacity, technologicalregimes, and organizational performance. However, most of the current empiricalresearch has explored these factors in isolation. To fill this gap, this thesis develops aresearch model that interconnects the above factors to investigate the workingmechanism of strategic flexibility on organization performance, employing absorptivecapacity as the intermediary role and technological regimes as the regulatory effects.This thesis focuses on three questions:1. Can strategic flexibility improve the organizational performance? This remains aquite controversial issue among the research field.2. How does strategic flexibility affect the organizational performance?Organizational flexibility is viewed to be formulated by acquisition, socialization,and internalization of external knowledge among the organization.3. In a dynamic environment, technological regimes evaluate in differentdimensions and levels. How does the evaluation extent in technological regimesmoderate the relationship between flexibility and performance?A questionnaire-based survey is conducted in56small and medium-sized firms in ITindustry in Beijing, Dalian, Shandong and Jiangsu.26hypothesized propositions aretested based on the survey data. In the guidance of the primary conclusions, IBM, asthe leading IT corporation is studied to prove and modify the research conclusion.