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...

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. ...

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 ...

This paper draws on the theory of absorptive capacity and related work to identify its dimensions and examine its impact on organizational propensity to adopt novel, complex interorganizational technologies. Specifically, it seeks to examine the causal pathway through which absorptive capacity affects organizational adoption intention. Survey-based research was carried out to test this theory. ...