The Study Of The Dynamic Evolution Of The Concept Of Network Capability

Network is an essential external factors of enterprise to obtain resources required in a development process,to extract the network partners who can stimulate the development of the enterprise,establish and manage relationship with these network partners,obtain the external resources to achieve goals,therefore,appears the theory of network capability.Firms’ ability of developing and managing the relationships with key suppliers,customers and other organizations and the ability to effectively deal the interaction of the relationships is the core competitiveness of a firm,the ability can direct impact a company’s competitive advantage and performance,previous studies mainly on network capacity dimension analysis and empirical research,this paper focuses on the deconstruction and analysis of the network capability concept.This study on the basis of related literature about the network capacity theory and the concept of dynamic evolution,with the help of the social network analysis software UCINET carry out the co-word analysis on key terms.The study combined with the related literatures’ study about the concept and the connotation of network capability,first determine analysis unit,and then to collect the concept of network capability and obtain the deconstruction of definitions,then classify the keywords.For the convenience of analysis the large quantity of keywords,according to the characteristics and the properties of the keywords,it is classified as concept elements,and then conduct the consistency analysis and the analysis of centrality.The purpose of this paper is to apply the method of literature measurement systematic analysis of network capability concept and its evolution process for the first time,from a quantitative point of view fill the gaps in other studies,thus in order to promote our country’s enterprise the strategy management field research accumulated valuable reference experience.In order to make the article is different from previous research: 1)use a longer literature interval(1987-2016),literature sources is more wider,2)analyzes 73 definitions,3)use of quantitative methods and techniques.When select the definitions,in order to expand the universality of the definitions,the scope of the journal is also relatively expand,literature is not limited to the core journals.This article tries to analyze the evolution of the academic consensus,the structure and the change of the degree of the network capability,fully embodies the diversity of concept of network capability,also lay the foundation for the network capability of research in the future.Through the deconstruction and analysis of the definitions,preliminary make the concept model clearly,can be roughly divided into process and interpretation,contribute to the understanding of concepts.And in the process of study,also found that some scholars have put forward the standardization of the definition and preciseness issues to consider.