As healthcare organizations rely more heavily on IT, there is a growing need to understand innovative IT use in these organizations. First, this research introduces the concept of ehealth absorptive capacity which consists of e-health entrepreneurial alertness, assimilation and exploitation, based on Cohen and Levinthal (1990)’s absorptive capacity theory. We then address the theoretical neglec...

Top management involvement in IT governance may positively influence the establishment and implementation of effective IT governance within organisations. There are few studies, however, investigating those factors that drive top managements’ ability to absorb IT governance knowledge within organisations. This study offers a deeper understanding of factors that help positively influence top man...

In this paper, we explore the strategic decision of an incumbent to open a proprietary technology platform in order to allow same-side co-opetition in a market characterized by network effects. We propose a game-theoretic model that analytically conceptualizes the interplay among the degree of sameside platform openness, the absorptive capacity of the entrant, and the intensity of network effec...

• We focus on the identification of spillovers in particular case regulation urban transportation firms with incentive contracts. build and estimate a structural cost model where service is regulated by local government provided large industrial corporation which operates several networks simultaneously. Diversity knowledge across operators same improves absorptive capacity increases flow spill...

This study explores if firms using RFID are characterized by higher levels of selected absorptive capacity attributes. Data from 37 firms is used to test the key proposition. The data confirms that firms complying with RFID mandates have higher levels of absorptive capacity attributes than their noncompliant counterparts.

Researchers have used the absorptive capacity construct to explain various organizational phenomena. In this article we review the literature to identify key dimensions of absorptive capacity and offer a reconceptualization of this construct. Building upon the dynamic capabilities view o( the firm, we distinguish between a firm's potential and realized capacity. We then advance a model outlinin...