Subject: Resources and dynamic capabilities in theory

Jones, O., Ghobadian, A., O'Regan, N. and Antcliff, V. (2013).Dynamic capabilities in a sixth-generation family firm: Entrepreneurship and the Bibby Line(Links to an external site.) .Business History, 55(6), 910-941.

The questions are:

1) What are the resources of Bibby Line?

2) What are the dynamic capabilities of Bibby Line?

3) Can you use the VRIN framework to analyse any of Bibby Line's resources? What is your unit of analysis? What conclusions can you draw about the case study and the theory once you have completed your VRIN analysis?

4) Does Bibby Line have dynamic capabilities?

5) Did the managers know this at the time or is this retrospective analysis?

6) What does using the three schools of strategic management within one case study tell you about the similarities and differences between them?