Technology capabilities in competitive environment

Abstract

This paper fills the prior research gap through a questionnaire survey of 54 firms together with a number
of interviews drawn from the Iranians information and communication technology (ICT) industry. The
results suggest that capabilities of studding or utilizing technological opportunities, core technology
capability, and independence of R&D decisions are important to firm reorganization in a competitive
environment, whereas over duty’s to survive technologies may limit a firm's reorganization especially in
such environment. Moreover, different types of competitive environment need different types of
technological capabilities to increase firm unusualness. This paper provides to the survive theory by
examining the joint effect of technology capability and competitive environment on a firm's
reorganization.