Marketing

Absorptive capacity

Exploit

Business administration

Resource-based view

Competitive advantage

Computer security

Business environment

Computer science

Business

Computer network

Organizational performance

Process management

Industrial organization

Knowledge management

Resource (disambiguation)

Dynamic capabilities

Journal of Small Business Management

By considering embedded opportunities and threats in today's dynamic business environment, this study proposes that small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) can exploit the ties of interfirm networks to access external resources and information, thus enhancing their organizational agility and absorptive capacity in a variable business environment and enabling superior organizational performance. This study enables SMEs to combine the external resources embedded in strategic networks with internal organizational capabilities including organizational agility and absorptive capacity to create an idiosyncratic competitive advantage in a chaotic business environment.

Managing Network Resource and Organizational Capabilities to Create Competitive Advantage for SMEs in a Volatile Environment