This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there is some heterogeneity in r...

This paper aims to gain a better understanding of KMS success. Based on the absorptive capacity theory, we develop a research model to explain how the use of KMS increases organizational performance by increasing the organizational absorptive capacity and the higher order capabilities. The absorptive capacity plays an important role in transforming KMS usage into agility and innovativeness and ...

This paper draws on the theory of absorptive capacity and related work to identify its dimensions and examine its impact on organizational propensity to adopt novel, complex interorganizational technologies. Specifically, it seeks to examine the causal pathway through which absorptive capacity affects organizational adoption intention. Survey-based research was carried out to test this theory. ...

The paper advances the hypothesis that research partnerships expand a firm’s absorptive capacity. The paper juxtaposes the multimarket contact of firms with their patent cross-citations to provide a test of the absorptive capacity hypothesis in general and an indirect test of the hypothesis that research partnerships expand absorptive capacity. The findings support the hypotheses. In the contex...

Through technological developments, innovation increasingly occurs within a network of organizations such as Industry 4.0 fieldlabs. As result, collaboration between different companies and institutions with interests needs to take place. Three Dutch smart industry fieldlabs were analysed study how these collaborative relationships are being established what their impact is on the absorptive ca...

Not only internal organizational factors, but also external network factors can influence absorptive capacity. We develop a multilevel conceptual model relating key network properties to absorptive capacity. We argue that the important properties of network structure for a firm’s absorptive capacity are network positions (i.e. centrality and structural autonomy), properties of connected relatio...

An organization’s absorptive capacity, or its ability to acquire and use knowledge, is important for facilitating innovation that can lead to improvements in organizational performance. We examine the effects of absorptive capacity on open source software development group performance. Specifically, in addition to the commonly noted importance of OSS developers, the role of the Internet-based u...

This paper investigates the effects of supply chain absorptive capacity on customization, production innovation, and in turn, business performance. Building upon the organization and strategy literature, we constructed multi-item measurement scales that tap into five dimensions of absorptive capacity, which were adapted to supply chain management context. Using survey-based data gathered from 1...

........................................................................................... 4 Introduction ...................................................................................... 5 Theoretical background .................................................................. 7 Absorptive Capacity ............................................................. 9 Types of Openness ..........