ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the concept of dynamic capabilities, and shows under what conditions routines and organisational capabilities can be developed. It explains accomplishing resource development processes within organisations is only possible with dynamic capabilities. The chapter provides a response to the research inquiry as to how dynamic capabilities have enabled Industriegewerkschaft Metall (IG) to react to the increasing spread of temporary work prior to the start of the economic crisis. It also shows how the adaptation responses to the changed conditions and new requirements during the crisis can be explained with dynamic capabilities. As organisations are structured on a multi-scalar and multi-location basis, different bottom-up and top-down learning processes occur in various locations and scales of the union organisation. The chapter delineates dynamic capabilities by definition from ad-hoc reactions. It outlines the multi-scalar as well as multi-locational resource developments with dynamic capabilities in bottom-up and top-down learning processes in the IG Metall, based on the empirical data.
