Absorptive capacity is a firm’s ability to identify, assimilate, transform, and apply valuable external knowledge. It is considered an imperative for business success. Modern information technologies perform a critical role in the development and maintenance of a firm’s absorptive capacity. We provide an assessment of absorptive capacity in the information systems literature. IS scholars have u...

Title of Dissertation: ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE PROJECT PERFORMANCE Sherae Lee Daniel, Doctor of Philosophy 2007 Dissertation directed by: Ritu Agarwal Decision and Information Technologies Katherine Stewart Decision and Information Technologies The open source phenomenon is an exciting movement that is transforming traditional forms of software development. Some open source...

Not only internal organizational factors, but also external network factors can influence absorptive capacity. We develop a multilevel conceptual model relating key network properties to absorptive capacity. We argue that the important properties of network structure for a firm’s absorptive capacity are network positions (i.e. centrality and structural autonomy), properties of connected relatio...

The author provides a framework comprising of propositions for further research explicating the relations between IT-based knowledge capabilities (IT-KC) and Commercialization of Innovations (CI). They posit that a firm's absorptive capacity and ambidexterity (ability to explore and exploit) affect CI. Further, absorptive capacity too can be an antecedent to ambidexterity. IT based knowledge ca...

In this paper, we examine the phenomenon of dyadic inter-organizational relationships and develop a conceptual model to explain the influence of complementary knowledge and relative absorptive capacity on firm performance. Using theoretical perspectives emanating from the knowledge-based view of the firm and organizational learning, we suggest that performance outcomes in inter-organizational r...

Based on an in-depth case study, this article studies a collaborative IT project (one IT service vendor and three clients) involving intensive knowledge integration activity. It explains how social capital (e.g. relational, cognitive, structural), absorptive capacity (e.g. exploratory, exploitative, transformative) interact with each other with the support of organizational culture (e.g. collec...

As a service organization, for an academic institution, knowledge sharing is a critical process that needed to be done and developed always in order to achieve sustainable advantage, emphasizing its role as center of excellence. The research objection was to explore the relationship between the three constructs: Knowledge Sharing, Absorptive Capacity and Channel Richness. The conceptual and str...