Servitization is a process of creating value by shifting from merely selling products to selling solutions that integrate products and services. It is a strategy often used by manufacturing SMEs to avoid or escape the commodity trap. Research has illustrated that servitization can lead to a competitive advantage in the marketplace, but many SMEs still fail to servitize successfully. In this pap...

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Purpose In spite of the increased attention on knowledge management processes as important variables for firms to generate performance benefits within supply chain literature, little is known about how these could impact offshoring innovation (OI) relationships held by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Considering their growing importance, this study aims investigate interplay between ...

By reviewing the existing literature and empirical investigation, we build a socalled Photosynthesis model which argues that a recipient developing country only achieves benefits from FDI once they have sufficient absorptive capacity related to human capital resource, absorptive capacity of domestic firm, financial systems, physical infrastructure, technological, and institutional development. ...

We address how organizational practices may leverage the knowledge absorption from users in the context of innovation. We focus on practices that enhance communication and knowledge sharing between management and employees and between departments, and on pecuniary rewards for engaging in knowledge sharing. Such practices leverage knowledge absorption and lead to higher innovative capacity. Thus...

A novel approach to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity: Aggregating Cohen and Levinthal The paper develops a more precise specification and understanding of the process of national-level knowledge accumulation and absorptive capabilities by applying the reasoning and evidence from the firm-level analysis pioneered by Cohen and Levinthal (1989, 1990). In doing so, we ack...