The absorptive capacity of family firms

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...

The Effects of Enterprise Systems on the Absorptive Capacity of Greek Firms

In the highly dynamic, competitive, complex and ‘knowledge intensive’ modern economy the exploitation and management of external knowledge has become of critical importance for the success of firms, and this has led to increasing interest of both researchers and practitioners in the concept of firm’s absorptive capacity (ACAP). It has been recognized that information and communication technolog...