A current bottleneck in the thin film photovoltaic field is the fabrication of low cost electrodes. We demonstrate ultrasonically spray coated multiwalled carbon nanotube (CNT) layers as opaque and absorptive metal-free electrodes deposited at low temperatures and free of post-deposition treatment. The electrodes show sheet resistance as low as 3.4 Ω □(-1), comparable to evaporated metallic con...

The paper examines the impact of absorptive capacity on ERP adoption of the firm. The comprehensive framework of the relationships among absorptive capacity, trust, and knowledge acquisition is addressed and tested empirically. The results of the path analysis confirm that the proposed model is acceptable and seven out of its nine paths such as 1) between absorptive capacity and knowledge acqui...

A theoretical model to investigate factors influencing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system users’ performance in the post-implementation stage within organization is developed. The hypotheses were tested using survey data from companies that implemented ERP systems. Results from partial least squares (PLS) analyses suggest that organization climate, absorptive capacity, ease of use and sy...

Business intelligence (BI) can help support decision-making processes and so contribute to improved BI assimilation and organisational performance. However, a BI undertaking may be effective and profitable for some organisations but not others. How can these differing outcomes be explained for those firms that have adopted BI systems? Drawing on the literature pertaining to absorptive capacity ...

Different surgical techniques exist for the treatment of morbid obesity that can be classified as restrictive mal absorptive, or a combination of both. The duodenal switch (DS) is a mixed technique with mal absorptive predominance that has certain advantages over the restrictive techniques (weight loss is greater, patients show less signs of intolerance/vomiting, and hence, they have a better q...

Open innovation and absorptive capacity are two popular concepts in contemporary innovation management literature. To our knowledge, they never have been connected to each other in a systematic way although it is straightforward that firms' absorptive capacity, as it has been defined by Cohen and Levinthal (1990), determines their ability to in-source externally developed technology or ideas. I...

Absorptive capacity generally facilitates the adoption of innovation. How does this relationship change when economic return is not the sole driver of innovation uptake? We investigate whether absorptive capacity facilitates the adoption of green innovation based on a survey of 79 construction companies in Scotland. Based on the results of multiple regression analyses, we confirm that existing ...

The author provides a framework comprising of propositions for further research explicating the relations between IT-based knowledge capabilities (IT-KC) and Commercialization of Innovations (CI). They posit that a firm's absorptive capacity and ambidexterity (ability to explore and exploit) affect CI. Further, absorptive capacity too can be an antecedent to ambidexterity. IT based knowledge ca...