Empirical analysis of intellectual capital, potential absorptive capacity, realized absorptive capacity and cultural intelligence on innovation

Intellectual capital-enhancing HR, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation

This study investigates the role of intellectual capital (i.e., human, social and organization capital) enhancing HR practices in the development of a firm’s potential and realized absorptive capacity, as well as the impact of absorptive capacity on the firm’s innovative performance. Results show that while human capital enhancing HR (acquisition and developmental HR) is positively related to p...

The absorptive capacity of family firms – How familiness affects potential and realized absorptive capacity

Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: Antecedents and Consequences

A brief abstract This study examines how business units manage the ratio of realized to potential absorptive capacity and reveals how absorptive capacity drives performance differences. Results from 462 business units within 150 branches show that cross-functional interfaces, participation and job-rotation especially enhance a unit’s potential absorptive capacity. Formalization and socializatio...

Connecting absorptive capacity and open innovation

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...

Relational Absorptive Capacity: Preliminary Empirical Evidence for a Relational Theory of Absorptive Capacity in Supply Chains

Relational Absorptive Capacity (RAC) is presented as an extension of the theory of Absorptive Capacity for the purpose of understanding innovation in supply chain relationships. RAC is the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new knowledge from a supply chain partner, assimilate it, and apply it for mutual benefit. The paper builds theory by developing a comprehensive multi-facet model o...