Innovation has widely been regarded as one of the main drivers of economic growth in the knowledge economy. This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of regional innovation capabilities using a panel dataset from China. It finds that FDI has a significant positive impact on the overall regional innovation capacity. FDI intensity is also positively ...

Background. Golf is relatively new in China, and overall playing skills are low. Although golf coaches are vital in improving golf skills, their teaching skills are underdeveloped. Objectives. This study aims to explore how the coach’s tacit knowledge affects the transfer performance by exploring the factors that affect the teaching ability of Chinese golf coaches. It aims to improve the teach...

The purpose of this Perspective Paper is to advance understanding of absorptive capacity, its underlying dimensions, its multi-level antecedents, its impact on firm performance and the contextual factors that affect absorptive capacity. Nineteen years after the Cohen and Levinthal 1990 paper, the field is characterized by a wide array of theoretical perspectives and a wealth of empirical eviden...

Absorptive Capacity (AC) is a set of organizational routines and processes to acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit knowledge to produce an organizational capability. The AC concept stresses the opportunity to capitalize on knowledge management to increase firms’ business model innovations, recognizing the value of new opportunity platforms, external and internal information, assimilate i...

The offshore outsourcing (offshoring) posits a high level of risk because of time zone difference, cultural difference and client’s need for more controls over quality and schedule, etc. Knowledge gap between clients and vendors is one of the key challenges for outsourcing success. Offshoring vendors need to continuously acquire external knowledge from clients, assimilate and internalize the ne...

The Competence Development Systems framework is a synthesis and extension of evolutionary, institutional and systems views of innovation and sociotechno-economic development. It provides a whole systems view of firm learning to analyze the experimentally organized economy. This framework has five elements; 1) customers, demand and value, 2) competition and competitor actions, 3) firm learning, ...

Relational Absorptive Capacity (RAC) is presented as an extension of the theory of Absorptive Capacity for the purpose of understanding innovation in supply chain relationships. RAC is the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new knowledge from a supply chain partner, assimilate it, and apply it for mutual benefit. The paper builds theory by developing a comprehensive multi-facet model o...

A small-world network is a locally clustered network with short path lengths connecting different clusters. In this study, we explore contingent factors that affect the impact of small-world networks on firm performance, maintaining that benefits from such networks may depend on a firm’s absorptive capacity to recognize and assimilate external information and knowledge. Using a sample of U.S. v...