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...

Knowledge sharing and absorption are required to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Firms’ dynamic capabilities assist in mediating the effects of knowledge sharing and absorption on organizational innovation performance. Therefore, this study proposed a conceptual model to investigate the relationships among knowledge sharing capability, absorptive capability, dynamic capability, and o...

Nowadays there is an increasing trend of leveraging on external knowledge for innovation, which is termed as open innovation. While open innovation can help organizations obtain complementary knowledge from collaborators, it is likely to have inherent challenges in knowledge absorption. The differences of interorganizational knowledge can seriously inhibit the ability of the focal organization ...