The Competence Development Systems framework is a synthesis and extension of evolutionary, institutional and systems views of innovation and sociotechno-economic development. It provides a whole systems view of firm learning to analyze the experimentally organized economy. This framework has five elements; 1) customers, demand and value, 2) competition and competitor actions, 3) firm learning, ...

The present research examines the differential impact of the importance of internally and externally sourced information and knowledge and its relationship to absorptive capacity and firm performance. In addition, this analysis deals directly with the unobservable heterogeneity amongst firms that is generally viewed as the raison d'être for a unique resource based perspective of organizational ...

Interest in business ecosystems has grown exponentially over the last decade. This article focuses on operational benefits of by investigating how embeddedness influences supply chain competence. Specifically, it considers mediating effect external knowledge capacities (i.e. absorptive, desorptive and connective capacity). Data from 271 European firms was collected to test paper’s hypotheses us...