Firm’S Absorptive Capacity: The Case of Vietnamese Manufacturing Firms

Absorptive Capacity of Non-r&d Intensive Firms in the German Manufacturing Industry

This paper analyses and compares different dimensions of non-R&D intensive and very R&D intensive manufacturing firms’ absorptive capacity (AC). The empirical analysis is based on firm level data obtained by a telephone survey in early 2010 among more than 200 non-R&D intensive firms and 88 firms with a high R&D intensity in the German manufacturing industry. Both groups of firms were asked to ...

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

An empirical study of firms’ absorptive capacity and export diversification

The purpose of this paper is to study the firms’ internal knowledge in combination with the external knowledge diversity in their region to examine their joint relation to export diversification. Using a data set of the full population of Swedish manufacturing exporters for the period 2003-2013, allows for identifying when firms introduce new products on the export market. The results indicate ...

Absorptive Capacity and ERP Implementation in Indian Medium-Sized Firms

Whilst absorptive capacity has been identified as an important contributor to the effective implementation of IT systems, previous studies have failed to explicitly consider the contribution of individual and organizational knowledge processes. Nine case studies of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation were undertaken. The case studies were all undertaken in SMEs in a developing cou...

Why Firms Use Social Media: An Absorptive Capacity Perspective

The use of social media has significant impact on various areas of society. In the past few years, firms have systematically embraced social media as a major means of communication, collaboration, as well as exploration and exploitation of knowledge. In the practice literature, many claim that social media use increases the competitive advantage and performance of firms. However, evidence of th...