This working paper sets up the basis for investigating the role of IT capabilities in the context of large and distributed service organizations. The idea grounded in this article resides in the possibility that absorptive capacity has an impact on service innovation. Addressing some theories on absorptive capacity and on service innovation we provide a brief insight on the importance that IT s...

This study reviews three classic international business theories and some related empirical studies to identify the gaps in literature suggest future research directions. In studies, most analyses on determinants of FDI are centered concepts firm-specific, internalization, location advantages according monopolistic advantage theory, internalization OLI paradigm. These determine whether a firm w...