Strategic capabilities as a basis for enhanced competitive performance

Strategic capabilities are a crucial subject of scientific research which attracts attention of both academic and business community since they explain organization's competitive edge. Despite the substantial progress in exploring strategic capabilities since its inception, the academic discourse remains fragmented with diverse interpretations and methodologies for defining and categorizing this concept. This divergence hampers a cohesive understanding and application of strategic capabilities in enhancing organizational competitiveness. Consequently, this paper aims to consolidate the knowledge on strategic capabilities, offering a modern perspective on how they serve as a driving force for competitive performance. This analysis provides the underlying theories on strategic capabilities, scrutinizing various definitions, classifications, and models. The choice of publications is based on key words, publication period, quotation index and quality of journals. The findings allow to trace the evolution of ≪strategic capabilities≫ concept, offer a novel framework for its interpretation, and integration with key elements that underpin an organization's competitive stature. The empirical results offer tangible benefits to business community by elucidating the core elements of competitive advantage, their interplay, and evaluation. The approach to defining and classifying strategic capabilities, alongside conceptual network developed herein prove the depth of previous research and charts new paths for future study of strategic capabilities.

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