The purpose of this study is to model the relationship between absorptive capacity and intention to use in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) environment in Iran. This research is a correlation study where a field survey was employed for data collection. The unit of analysis is Iranian individuals who are ERP user in organizations using ERP systems. The questionnaires were sent to the selec...

Construction has been described as a sector with weak levels of Absorptive Capacity. At a time when the performance of the UK construction sector, in terms of levels of exports and future financial sustainability, is being widely discussed by policy makers, are the actual levels of Absorptive Capacity a ‘real and present’ risk to future sector performance? High levels of Absorptive Capacity hav...

This study explores the influence of partner-specific absorptive capacity as a self-reinforcing mechanism in the context of the theory of path dependence. For this purpose, theoretical foundations of path dependence and absorptive capacity are reviewed. Following, a path model of partner-specific absorptive capacity for business-to-business relationships is developed. While this paper concentra...

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 ...

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...

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 study attempts to explain how physical and human IT resources deployed in inter-organizational relationships (IORs) affect IT-enabled capabilities of a firm. We classify the IT enabled-capability into two types such as relational-specific knowledge management (RKM) capability and absorptive capacity. In addition, this study suggests that RKM capability and absorptive capacity lead to incre...