| dc.description.abstract | The current business environment is delineated by a complex, changing, and highly competitive institutional and socioeconomic context that requires organizations to adapt to frequent challenges to make their business viable in the long run. The broad market opening to global competition also shows the increasing requirement for companies to operate in international markets to maintain their competitiveness. A line of research has been developed in the last two decades in order to understand what elements, processes, and resources are necessary for companies to cope with this scenario, which is called dynamic capabilities. This approach is concerned with explaining the sources of business competitive advantage throughout the time, by arguing that, in order to cope with rapidly changing environments, the firm must have the capability to build, integrate and reconfigure internal and external competencies. The objective of this research is to understand the relationship between dynamic capabilities and the competitiveness of organizations through the analysis of the organizational trajectory and the strategic changes that have occurred in the course of firm’s history in domestic and international scope. For this purpose, a multiple case study was conducted with two Brazilian companies in the Information Technology sector, which have been operating for more than twenty years. They have international operations and are highly representative of the sector in national level. The research analyzed the history of these organizations and identified relevant events that led to stronger and structural changes in order to verify the creation and mobilization of dynamic capabilities and their role in maintaining the competitiveness of companies. The results support that the broad history of performance and growth of the organizations studied was structured through their idiosyncratic assets and resources, an appropriate strategy and the ability to constantly adapt and reconfigure according to the changes of new competitive challenges. The internationalization of these companies demonstrated feasibly and based on the articulation of the dynamic capabilities and the constant perception of the managers that, new opportunities resulting from their clients. The construction and appropriate orchestration of dynamic capabilities allow companies to position distinctly in competitive and changing environments, achieving sustained growth in the throughout the time, developing new business and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage. Key- | en |
