Innovation has been a topic of considerable interest to researchers and practitioners. Particularly, the networks within which firms operate and their properties (e.g., structural holes) are suggested to affect firms’ innovation performance. One stream of research finds that structural holes are conducive to firms’ innovation because of the heterogeneous information about alternatives that firm...

A classic question faced by technology suppliers and buyers is whether to compete in the product markets or to cooperate through licensing. We address this question by examining an important, demand-side barrier to licensing—the buyers’ cost of integrating a licensed technology. We argue that this cost can be affected by suppliers’ knowledge transfer capabilities, buyers’ absorptive capacity, a...

a r t i c l e i n f o Innovation is a key source of knowledge-based competitive advantage. However, research on how firms' co-production enhances innovation is scarce. Thus, this study not only integrates the three dimensions of social capital and examines these dimensions' separate effects on co-production but also incorporates the roles of absorptive capacity and self-efficacy, analyzing thei...

This article was an attempt to brief a new model of absorptive capacity and develop the concept which is critical factor in applying, accumulating linking external knowledge innovation. Through comprehensive review literature on capacity, authors ended up with idea that stream waterfall continually fosters all abilities capacity. In addition, following spillover each stage, perform their activi...

Under the background of knowledge economy, business managers have gradually realized that improving innovation performance requires breaking organizational boundaries to obtain knowledge, technology and other resources from outside. As one important external subjects new product development (NPD), customers actively participate in NPD activities become an effective way acquire customer knowledg...

The paper advances the hypothesis that research partnerships expand a firm’s absorptive capacity. The paper juxtaposes the multimarket contact of firms with their patent cross-citations to provide a test of the absorptive capacity hypothesis in general and an indirect test of the hypothesis that research partnerships expand absorptive capacity. The findings support the hypotheses. In the contex...

This paper investigates the effects of supply chain absorptive capacity on customization, production innovation, and in turn, business performance. Building upon the organization and strategy literature, we constructed multi-item measurement scales that tap into five dimensions of absorptive capacity, which were adapted to supply chain management context. Using survey-based data gathered from 1...

An important source for a firm’s competitive advantage is its external knowledge-related relationships. Absorptive capability is a firm’s ability to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends. It pertains to knowledge creation and utilization that enhances a firm’s ability to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Four capabilities compos...