The important relationship between knowledge and innovation is well established in the literature. However, little is known about how new ventures’ acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation of knowledge (i.e., their absorptive capacity) affects innovation. We examine the role of the individual components of absorptive capacity on innovation on a sample of new firms in the Swed...

A current bottleneck in the thin film photovoltaic field is the fabrication of low cost electrodes. We demonstrate ultrasonically spray coated multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT) layers as opaque and absorptive metal-free electrodes deposited at low temperatures and free of post-deposition treatment. The electrodes show sheet resistance as low as 3.4 Ω □(-1), comparable to evaporated metallic con...

The paper examines the impact of absorptive capacity on ERP adoption of the firm. The comprehensive framework of the relationships among absorptive capacity, trust, and knowledge acquisition is addressed and tested empirically. The results of the path analysis confirm that the proposed model is acceptable and seven out of its nine paths such as 1) between absorptive capacity and knowledge acqui...

A theoretical model to investigate factors influencing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system users’ performance in the post-implementation stage within organization is developed. The hypotheses were tested using survey data from companies that implemented ERP systems. Results from partial least squares (PLS) analyses suggest that organization climate, absorptive capacity, ease of use and sy...

Business intelligence (BI) can help support decision-making processes and so contribute to improved BI assimilation and organisational performance. However, a BI undertaking may be effective and profitable for some organisations but not others. How can these differing outcomes be explained for those firms that have adopted BI systems? Drawing on the literature pertaining to absorptive capacity ...

Different surgical techniques exist for the treatment of morbid obesity that can be classified as restrictive mal absorptive, or a combination of both. The duodenal switch (DS) is a mixed technique with mal absorptive predominance that has certain advantages over the restrictive techniques (weight loss is greater, patients show less signs of intolerance/vomiting, and hence, they have a better q...

Open innovation and absorptive capacity are two popular concepts in contemporary innovation management literature. To our knowledge, they never have been connected to each other in a systematic way although it is straightforward that firms' absorptive capacity, as it has been defined by Cohen and Levinthal (1990), determines their ability to in-source externally developed technology or ideas. I...

Absorptive capacity generally facilitates the adoption of innovation. How does this relationship change when economic return is not the sole driver of innovation uptake? We investigate whether absorptive capacity facilitates the adoption of green innovation based on a survey of 79 construction companies in Scotland. Based on the results of multiple regression analyses, we confirm that existing ...

This study looks at organizations’ perceptions of the importance of absorptive capacity attributes in the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) in a supply chain and their relationships with supply chain process integration and information technology infrastructure support. Data for this pilot research study was collected using a survey questionnaire administered online to members...

Chinese firms urgently need to use open innovation models access external knowledge, resources, and skills improve their internal performance achieve catch-up. Using a dataset of joint patent applications Chinese-listed manufacturing from 2006–2018, we construct panel fixed-effects model empirically test the effect dynamic capabilities on firms’ innovation. The results show that can effectively...