Absorptive Capacity and Enterprise Performance: An Empirical Study

This is the time of knowledge economy and knowledge becomes an important factor for enterprises. Enterprises external network as the main source of enterprise knowledge, can affect enterprise performance by way of absorptive capacity. Thus, enterprise’s knowledge absorption capacity becomes a hot issue. While, however, most of related researches lack deeply analyses on absorptive capacity, and can’t clearly explain the impact of absorptive capacity on profit performance and innovation performance. Based on 205 valid questionnaires, the paper conducts a further study on enterprise absorptive capacity, profit performance and innovation performance, sets up and verifies the mechanism that absorptive capacity affecting its profit and innovation performance.