CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 – ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH 2.1 The absorptive capacity approach 2.1.2. The process of absorptive capacity 2.2 The social network approach 2.3 Integrating absorptive capacity and social network theory CHAPTER 3 THE MICRO-FOUNDATIONS OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY 3.1 The Social Structure of Innovation 3.2 External knowledge 3.2.1 Scientific vs. I...

purpose: this research seeks to determine the level of knowledge sharing, the absorptive capacity, and the innovation capability at the central libraries of the state universities of tehran in 1393. besides, it seeks to identify the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation capability in the library. methodology: this applied research is carried out using survey method – correlation...

This research investigates the relationships between knowledge sharing capability, absorptive capacity, and innovation. We propose statistical hypotheses and Structural Equation Modeling to study these relationships based on the data sampled from 104 companies of Indonesia’s information and communication technology industries, including, telecommunication service provider, support service provi...

• We focus on the identification of spillovers in particular case regulation urban transportation firms with incentive contracts. build and estimate a structural cost model where service is regulated by local government provided large industrial corporation which operates several networks simultaneously. Diversity knowledge across operators same improves absorptive capacity increases flow spill...

An organization’s absorptive capacity, or its ability to acquire and use knowledge, is important for facilitating innovation that can lead to improvements in organizational performance. We examine the effects of absorptive capacity on open source software development group performance. Specifically, in addition to the commonly noted importance of OSS developers, the role of the Internet-based u...

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...

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 ...

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...