Organisations are finding it increasingly more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise in the number of business opportunities and the increase in global competition require firms to combine internal and external learning processes to renew and reconfigure existing capabilities and knowledge to enable them to meet environmental demands and to innovate. This study ...

background: according to literature, there are differences among different species of animals in respect to absorption of d-xylose. objectives: in two experiments, the differences that might exist in absorptive capacity of small intestine for d-xylose, in different types of chicken were tested. methods: in experiment one, 2 groups of nine adult layer type males (48 weeks) and females (58 weeks)...

Abstract Digital technologies are considered as factors that accelerate the pace of innovation and increase firm’s performance. However, few studies have investigated whether this claim is conditioned by other elements contribute to innovation. Furthermore, firms increasingly rely on external knowledge sources expand their internal base for development innovations. In context, absorptive capaci...

Considering knowledge transfer functions as a mediating factor, this study discusses how administrative employees execute innovation in education through absorptive capacity and psychological empowerment. SPSS25 was used to analyse the data. Based on findings, mediates links between two innovation-related concepts: (1) capability; (2) empowerment capability. The creation of an adapted model "ab...

Cooperation can benefit and hurt firms at the same time. An important question then is: when is it better to cooperate. And how can an appropriate partner be selected? In this paper we present a model of inter-firm cooperation driven by cognitive distance, appropriability conditions and external knowledge. Absorptive capacity of firms develops as an outcome of the interaction between absorptive...