Inter-Firm Technological Cooperation: Effects Of Absorptive Capacity, Firm-Size And Specialization

Inter-Organizational Relationships and Firm Performance: Impact of Complementary Knowledge and Relative Absorptive Capacity

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...

Absorptive Capacity: One Size Fits All? Firm-level Analysis of Absorptive Capacity for Different Kinds of Knowledge

Determinant Factors of Absorptive Capacity and Innovation in Iranian Industry’s firms (Focus on Firm Size, Labor Productivity and Value of Production)

The successful economies are ones that have effective system to transform knowledge and technology in economic capacity. They have complex system that is an important sector of their economy. The current approach moving to knowledge based society is attention to R&D activities and high technologies. In this path, industrial companies can have a vital role in creating, developing and applying of...

Technological Determinism and the Firm

Business history and the history of technology, although devoted to the study of closely-related phenomena, have diverged in recent years. Differences in the methodologies and received wisdom of the two fields can be seen clearly in how leading theorists have approached the question of technological determinism. After reviewing divergent rends in the analysis of this question, I shall discuss r...

Director Resignations, Firm Size and Signalling Effects

It is often difficult to predict how a change in a firm’s corporate governance structure will affect the future value of the firm. We examine what factors are associated with the level of stock market uncertainty surrounding a change in composition of the board of directors by investigating the variations in market reaction to a director resignation announcement. Market uncertainty is measured ...