This paper models the determinants of exporting (both in terms of export propensity and export intensity), with a particular emphasis on the importance of absorptive capacity and the endogenous link between exporting and undertaking R&D. Based on a merged dataset of the 2001 Community Innovation Survey and the 2000 Annual Respondents Database for the UK, our results suggest that establishment s...

Distributed organizations face numerous difficulties during implementation of knowledge-intensive projects. These types of initiatives require that organizations have absorptive capacity or the ability to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit new knowledge. This case study examines IS adoption strategy based upon the effect of organizational structure on the ability of the organization to ...

This research examines the relationship between ERP systems and innovation from a knowledgebased perspective. Building upon the multi-dimensional conceptualization of absorptive capacity by Zahra and George [Zahra, S.A., George, G., 2002. Absorptive capacity: a review, reconceptualization, and extension. Academy of Management Journal 27 (2), 185–203], a theoretical framework is developed to spe...

Improving the process of finding and acquiring new information technology (IT) has been called "one of the most persistently challenging topics in the IT field" (Fichmm 1992, p. 95). In order to improve the process, we must first identify the components imbcdded within it. We employ the concept of absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal 1990) to focus and synthesize research in innovation, com...

Organisations are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise in the number of business opportunities and the increase in global competition require firms to combine internal and external learning processes to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge to enable them to meet environmental demands and to innovate. This study ...

While most research dealing with the issue of inter-organizational knowledge transfer takes the position that some type of network alliance is superior to a non-networked group of entities for the purposes of knowledge transfer, limited theory, or empirical research, addresses how different network types experience knowledge transfer and its associated factors differently. This issue is address...

Considering knowledge transfer functions as a mediating factor, this study discusses how administrative employees execute innovation in education through absorptive capacity and psychological empowerment. SPSS25 was used to analyse the data. Based on findings, mediates links between two innovation-related concepts: (1) capability; (2) empowerment capability. The creation of an adapted model "ab...

Critical to enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation is the fit between the system and the processes in an organization. Knowledge about the ERP system must flow from those implementing the system and those responsible once in production. Effective knowledge transfer is assisted by the absorptive capacity of the learner and the competence of the knowledge holder, as reflected in the cl...