In seeking answer to the question what role can IT based knowledge Capability play in commercialization of innovation, we looked at potential and realized absorptive capacity and ambidexterity . We posit that a firm's absorptive capacity and ambidexterity (ability to explore and exploit) affect its ability to commercialize innovations. Further, absorptive capacity too can be an antecedent to am...

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...

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By reviewing the existing literature and empirical investigation, we build a socalled Photosynthesis model which argues that a recipient developing country only achieves benefits from FDI once they have sufficient absorptive capacity related to human capital resource, absorptive capacity of domestic firm, financial systems, physical infrastructure, technological, and institutional development. ...

today, customer knowledge is one of the most important resources to innovation and organizations whose capabilities should be improved to absorb this knowledge. the acquiring and applying the customer knowledge are not facile and all forms of the customer information and knowledge do not result value creating. thus, current study introduces a model to measure customer knowledge absorptive capac...