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 ...

The benefits of inbound open innovation are widely acknowledged, but not all companies successful in their attempts to leverage external sources innovation. Those with dynamic capabilities perform better, developing and maintaining such generates costs. Therefore, a given company needs find out which worth investing in. In the current study, I adopt contingency approach focus on distinct strate...

The paper investigates the association between foreign direct investment (FDI) and energy consumption within purview of trade liberalization economic growth from1971 to2014 in Bangladesh, employing Auto Regressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach. study result depicts a negative impact FDI on both long short run. Moreover, results persist robust to alternative measurements estima...

in knowledge-based economy, knowledge has a public good and non-rivalry nature. firms build their own knowledge stock not only by means of internal r&d and collaboration with partners, but also by means of previously spilled over knowledge of other firms and public research laboratories (such as universities). firms based on their absorptive capacity, and level of intra-industry and extra-i...

CHAPTER 1 – INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 – ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH 2.1 The absorptive capacity approach 2.1.2. The process of absorptive capacity 2.2 The social network approach 2.3 Integrating absorptive capacity and social network theory CHAPTER 3 THE MICRO-FOUNDATIONS OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY 3.1 The Social Structure of Innovation 3.2 External knowledge 3.2.1 Scientific vs. I...

The paper empirically analyses the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. We distinguish between three t...

The purpose of this Perspective Paper is to advance understanding of absorptive capacity, its underlying dimensions, its multi-level antecedents, its impact on firm performance and the contextual factors that affect absorptive capacity. Nineteen years after the Cohen and Levinthal 1990 paper, the field is characterized by a wide array of theoretical perspectives and a wealth of empirical eviden...

The purpose of this research is to address the absorptive capacity of individual knowledge workers in terms of their personal knowledge work practices. The purpose will be achieved by examining individual knowledge worker practices as they relate to the various dimensions of absorptive capacity, the SECI model of knowledge creation, and the communication channels used in their personal knowledg...