Shahid Beheshti University - Faculty of Management and Accounting Journal of Business Management Perspective 2251-6050 12 16 2013 11 22 The Effect of Dynamic Capabilities in Creation of Competitive Advantage The Effect of Dynamic Capabilities in Creation of Competitive Advantage 107 122 95186 10.29252/jbmp.12.16.107 FA Mohsen Akbari assistant professor University of Guilan 0000-0003-1884-6656 Mohammad Esmailzadeh Master Student, Guilan University Journal Article 2015 09 27      Competitive environment of today businesses has changed in a way that many scholars suggest that managers should invest more on dynamic capabilities. Gaining dynamic capabilities is a vital for corporate managers in such an environment. This paper is to investigate the effect of dynamic capabilities on competitive advantages. At first we reviewed the competitive advantage and strategy formulation approaches briefly and then we reviewed the dynamic capabilities in the literature. With this review, we hypothesized the effect of dynamic capabilities on competitive advantages. In order to examine this hypothesize, 142 managers of firms in Salafchagan industrial complex were asked to fill in the questionnaire. Results show that each of the dimensions of dynamic capabilities has an effect on competitive advantages, while learning capability has the strongest effect      Competitive environment of today businesses has changed in a way that many scholars suggest that managers should invest more on dynamic capabilities. Gaining dynamic capabilities is a vital for corporate managers in such an environment. This paper is to investigate the effect of dynamic capabilities on competitive advantages. At first we reviewed the competitive advantage and strategy formulation approaches briefly and then we reviewed the dynamic capabilities in the literature. With this review, we hypothesized the effect of dynamic capabilities on competitive advantages. In order to examine this hypothesize, 142 managers of firms in Salafchagan industrial complex were asked to fill in the questionnaire. Results show that each of the dimensions of dynamic capabilities has an effect on competitive advantages, while learning capability has the strongest effect https://jbmp.sbu.ac.ir/article_95186_8fa9505461d59353a18be8a7d3885e48.pdf