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""FrontMatter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Key Elements of Capabilities-Based Planning and Analysis""; ""3 Review of the Navy�s Analytical Processes and Methods""; ""4 Navy Participation in Capabilities-Based Planning Processes of the OSD and OJCS""; ""5 Potential Future Efforts""; ""Appendixes""; ""A Committee and Staff Biographies""; ""B Workshop Agenda""; ""C Acronyms and Abbreviations""

The purpose of the study is to propose a research framework that examine the relationship between marketing capabilities, resources acquisition capabilities, risk management capabilities and opportunity recognition capabilities for achieving better SMEs performance. The study contributes to the body of knowledge by providing a framework for SMEs performance and moderating role of ORC. Similarly, the paper offers theoretical contributions by providing more understanding of the effect of MC, RAC, RMC and moderating effect of ORC on SMEs performance. Furthermore, the framework fills in the missing links, as the previous studies failed to sufficiently study MC, RAC, RMC and moderating effect of ORC in one study. It is expected that the study would provide deep, better understanding and improve strategic management practices in SMEs that is capable of generating sufficient competitive advantage and overall performance. Thereby, allowing owners, managers, government agencies NGOs and other stakeholders in the sector to enhance SMEs performance that can make tremendous contributions to the growth of employment, GDP, the balance of trade and export.

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to offer an operationalization of an aggregate construct and a decisive contribution to building a dynamic capabilities theory with marketing implications. The authors investigate the influence of dynamic capabilities, specifically routine creation through embedding learning and knowledge, on marketing capabilities and performance in Portugal. The authors examine the direct relationship between dynamic capabilities and marketing capabilities, which is indirectly linked to performance depending on the effectiveness of the resulting new resource configuration.


Design/methodology/approach
The authors used four construct dimensions: knowledge creation routines, knowledge transfer processes, marketing capabilities, and firm performance. The study was based on an inter-industry random sample of firms selected from a commercial list. During a nine-month period the authors gathered data from a questionnaire delivered in hand to participating firms and collected through in-depth personal interviews. It was filled out by directors of Portuguese firms who agreed to participate in this study.


Findings
First, dynamic capabilities play an important role in the evolution of marketing capabilities and the maintenance of competitive advantage. Specifically, the authors identified a link between knowledge creation routines and knowledge transfer processes with marketing capabilities.
Second, the effect of dynamic capabilities on performance can be considered to be substantially indirect. However, the results also show a direct link between knowledge transfer and performance.


Originality/value
First, the development of a model establishing the contribution to the evolution of marketing capabilities in order to compete in a changing environment, considering the critical effect of knowledge creation and transfer in a non-static market configuration.
Second, the analysis of marketing capabilities from different layers, from strategic to more operational aspects.

Purpose
– In the context of universities implementing education for sustainability (EfS), the aim of the research presented here is to review the extent to which capabilities related to sustainability are represented by the capabilities generally sought by employers, and to determine whether these are incorporated in the graduate capability statements of Australian universities.


Design/methodology/approach
– Based on the discussion of graduate capabilities and those associated with sustainability, a web-based survey of university graduate attribute statements was undertaken.


Findings
– Generally, Australian universities have established frameworks of graduate capabilities that relate to the broad needs of employers. Of eight capabilities listed as important by employers, six were identified at some two-thirds of universities. Just under half of the universities' statements contained references to sustainability, while all the literature derived sustainability capabilities, except for "systems/holistic thinking", are represented to some degree. Those most strongly represented included understanding of social justice and equity; skills in communication and cooperation; and having commitment to social justice and equity.


Practical implications
– Apparently, in Australian universities, the framework for the development of sustainability capabilities is broadly in place, but not all have sustainability capabilities in place. This framework supports the implementation of EfS, but without development of pedagogy to underlie implementation, the authors have little insight about the extent of implementation, and whether graduates leave with sustainability capabilities.


Originality/value
– Uniquely this research identifies the extent to which Australian universities are providing direction in the development of capabilities related to the requirements of employers, and for sustainability.