Capacidades dinámicas en la producción de bienes intensivos en conocimientos. El caso del desarrollo de radares en Argentina (2003-2015)

Abstract

This paper analyzes the role that the dynamic capabilities of the company INVAP and its conjunction with those of the Argentine Air Force had in the development and manufacture of radars in Argentina, since 2003. The analyzed case illustrates how a technological company from a semi-peripheral country was able to generate dynamic capabilities that, when recombined among themselves, allowed diversifying its product portfolio, from the nuclear to the satellite, and then to the defense area. However, only with this type of capabilities this diversification is not fully explained, and therefore the concept of dynamic meta-capabilities is introduced. This refers to those dynamic capabilities that provide the organization with a framework for orchestrating resources, which implies disposing the set of dynamic capabilities (both operational and managerial, and their asset positions) for the development of new technological goods, and their subsequent production and commercialization.