This paper examines the impact of inflows of foreign knowledge on economic development, in the context of different institutional development and differing levels of human capital. We employ threshold regression analysis based on Hansen (2000) to determine whether there is cross-country heterogeneity in the flows of foreign knowledge from advanced industrialised countries to a group of 57 devel...

This paper examines the impacts of the knowledge transfer capacity of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the extent to which international joint ventures (IJVs) acquire technology. Although MNEs’ capability to transfer knowledge is a key catalyst for IJVs to learn new information, extant literature currently sheds light on only student’s absorptive capacity and neglects teacher’s fundamental a...

This study examines the role of servant leadership in absorptive capacity. Data from manufacturing and service sector organizations found that: a) there was moderation of servant leadership influence on knowledge identification through POS by high need for cognition, b) there was moderation of servant leadership influence on knowledge application through POS by low time pressure, and c) POS med...

Online communities are becoming an important way to support firms towards an open innovation approach. However, knowledge shared in an online community represents only a potential for firm’s innovation aims. The effectiveness of exploration and exploitation of this knowledge depends on firm’s absorptive capacity. In this work the authors focus on the time an idea, shared within an online commun...

Absorptive capacity (AC) is a firm’s ability to identify, integrate and exploit external knowledge. Absorptive capacity is a key concept in knowledge management and IS literature. Although there have been over 600 studies involving AC, there is little consensus regarding its conceptualization and operationalization. To further understand AC and its antecedents and outcomes, we meta-analyzed 67 ...

This paper contributes the understanding of how interface allows to the producers identify specific information and knowledge from the users (and other agents), and how it influences on firm’s absorptive capacity . We suppose that the great dynamism of the Information Technology Industry brings about uncertainty to the micro and small-sized Mexican software firms, and one way to reduce it is th...

Today systems finalized to knowledge creation, maintenance and diffusion into a social network are pushed to accelerate growing of their performances by competitive factors. There have been few researches on how to control this growth and make it compliant with characteristics of social network. This work aims to propose a model to create knowledge networks useful to control absorptive capacity...

The purpose of this study is to model the relationship between absorptive capacity and intention to use in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment in Iran. This research is a correlation study where a field survey was employed for data collection. The unit of analysis is Iranian individuals who are ERP user in organizations using ERP systems. The questionnaires were sent to the selec...