We present the development and validity field testing of two new measures: Absorptive Capacity and Experienced Community of Practice. We propose the Knowledge Transfer Ecosystem (KTE) as a model for organizing the different facets of knowledge transfer. We used a holdout sample of 1,980 engineers from a larger study in a Fortune 500 technology company to develop and test a 9-item scale of Absor...

In vertical integration literature, controversy remains over how organizational cost changes after vertical integration and how technological uncertainty influences vertical integration decisions. To reach a reconciliation, I draw on knowledge-based view of the firm (Grant, 1996, 1998; Spender, 1996, 1998), and propose a contingency model that examines moderating effects of knowledge absorptive...

In this chapter we test the hypothesis that uneven links distributions and uneven absorptive capacity between an industrial cluster members provide some kind of competitive advantages. Through an agentbased model has been built and calibrated on real data taken from an aerospace industrial cluster, that hypothesis is contrasted against the normal, the uniform, and the U-shaped distribution. The...

Abstract This paper builds on Qian and Acs ( Small Business Economics, 40 , 185–197, 2013) concept of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity empirically investigates its role in the context new knowledge intensive entrepreneurship. When it comes to business formation phase especially creation ventures, inheritance firms seems be more related individual attributes. The intensity these ventures is v...

In this paper we focus on the iterative process that occurs within the implementation phase of an ERP which we depict as a series of learning cycles: managers make decisions, identify mistakes, and accumulate experience (lessons learned). We argue that ERP development is a process of continuous evolution with no final design being possible or warranted. Moreover, we argue that ERP implementatio...