In this book Florian Andresen aims to unpack the capability rigidity paradox within the dynamic
capability view. Consequently he tackles one of the core challenges in strategic management of
the past decades. Providing a novel and thorough literature review on dynamic capabilities from
the point of this paradox the author discusses the current state of the literature to derive
the core shortcomings meticulously. A case study of capability evolution in the German Armed
Forces is interpreted against the backdrop of a strategy as process and practice lens thus
allowing to propose the concept of meso-level dynamic capabilities without falling prey to the
capability rigidity paradox.
