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Божкова, Вікторія Вікторівна, Виктория Викторовна Божкова, Viktoriia Viktorivna Bozhkova, and О. Vasylieva. "Absorptive capacity in open innovation paradigm." Thesis, ТОВ «ДД «Папірус», 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/37263.
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Companies nowadays operate under conditions of increasing competitive pressure from globalization, new market players and shorter production cycles [5]. To face these challenges, innovations are considered as major engines to enhance firms’ performance and to strengthen their competitive position in the market [9]. Nowadays, developing internal innovation capacities is no longer sufficient to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Therefore, a trend to intensify collaboration between companies across industry networks and partnerships, opening up their innovation processes has emerged [2].
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Taljaard, Amorie. "The interrelationships between entrepreneurial competencies, absorptive capacity and innovation capacity." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78972.
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Speed and measure of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) is bringing about shifts in power, wealth and knowledge. For entrepreneurs, who are known to drive innovation, Industry 4.0 offers a wide scope of opportunities in the future. As a middle-income country, South Africa needs to use its knowledge and innovations to sharpen its innovative edge in order to compete globally and stimulate innovation.
Hence, this research attempts to determine the relationships between entrepreneurial competencies, entrepreneurial absorptive capacity and innovation capacity. Three conceptual frameworks of the interrelationships between these constructs were synthesised from the literature. As ample research on entrepreneurial competencies is widely available, a Delphi study was employed, together with a concept matrix to determine which entrepreneurial competencies should be included specifically significant for innovation within the 4IR context in South Africa. Four entrepreneurial competency categories emerged: cognitive (knowledge), functional (skills), social (attitudes and behaviours) and meta (facilitating learning) categories. Using a survey method, the analysis on a sample of 452 innovative entrepreneurs in South Africa was mainly done by empirically testing the causal linear relationship through structural equation modelling (SEM). Furthermore, an Artificial Neural Networking (ANN) technique which tests non-linear relationships and develop pattern recognition as well as modelling was conducted to compare the results of a non-linear relationship with those of a linear relationship. However, explorative comparisons of the performance of linear SEM models with non-linear NN indicated that the SEM models in this case performed better in explaining the variance in the dependent variables than did the ANN.
Through the theories of innovative performance, person-entrepreneurial fit and knowledge spillover, the findings of the study indicate the importance of incorporating a unified entrepreneurial competency typology perspective on innovation. The cognitive, functional, social and meta competencies as well as entrepreneurial absorptive capacity are significant predictors of innovation capacity. The implications of this extend to transmitting knowledge through absorptive capacity, which allows entrepreneurs to identify and exploit opportunities, identified from new knowledge sources and incorporated into new innovations. Additionally, entrepreneurial absorptive capacity mediates the relationship between social, meta, and functional competencies and innovation capacity. Entrepreneurial absorptive capacity was also found to be a moderator between cognitive competencies and innovation capacity.
Therefore, the development of certain entrepreneurial competencies, significant for innovation, is crucial for improving the strength of the relationship between entrepreneurial absorptive capacity and innovation capacity of entrepreneurs. These results have important implications for Industry 4.0 entrepreneurs, educators, policy makers as well as entrepreneurship models.Thesis (PhD (Entrepreneurship))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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Mikhailava, Iryna. "Absorptive capacity : towards a practice-based view." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.654940.
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Campbell, David A. "Competitive absorptive capacity : antecedents and performance implications /." Full text available from ProQuest UM Digital Dissertations, 2007. http://0-proquest.umi.com.umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=1800248981&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1258479932&clientId=22256.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Mississippi, 2007.Typescript. Vita. Dissertation chair: Charles H. Noble "May 2007". Includes bibliographical references (leaves 157-178) Also available online via ProQuest to authorized users.
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Eldali, Salma, and Samuele Francesco Maria Sicali. "Absorptive Capacity in Family Firms : A quantitative study on Absorptive Capacity, R&D activities and patents in Family Firms." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-39917.
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Background: Absorptive capacity concept has its roots dated back around 30 years ago when two seminal papers were published. During the years, more knowledge has been produced about this topic. However, most of the studies have focused on the absorptive capacity from a general point of view without correlating it with the R&D activities of family firms and family involvement. Purpose: This study investigates how one of the distinctive characteristics of family firms (i.e. family involvement) plays a role along with R&D activities carried out either in-house or from external sources, in filing for a patent. Method: To conduct our study we adopted a quantitative approach and used secondary data about 14759 firms located in EU. Considering the type of selected variables, for our analysis we used logistic regression in order to see if the model we proposed was meaningful or not. Conclusion: The findings from our study address the research questions we formulated at the beginning. As for the R&D we conclude that family firms take more advantage from carrying out in-house R&D activities rather than R&D from external sources, matching with what claimed in the existing literature. Furthermore, our study matches with recent studies that challenge the traditional view of family involvement negatively related to innovation.
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Hammerschmidt, Anna. "A strategic investment game with endogenous absorptive capacity." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2006. http://epub.wu.ac.at/106/1/document.pdf.
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R&D plays a dual role: First, it generates new knowledge and second, it develops a firm's absorptive capacity. Most of the existing strategic investment game models neglect, however, the second role of R&D. The aim of this paper is to incorporate the absorptive capacity hypothesis in such a model by endogenizing the spillover. A two-stage game is established and subsequently solved, looking for the subgame perfect Nash equilibria. Considering the comparative static properties of the model as well as the simulation results, a new effect appears: The "free-rider effect" of the models with exogenous spillover, which deteriorates the higher the spillover becomes, is now counteracted by the "absorptive capacity effect". It is found that firms will invest more in R&D to strengthen absorptive capacity when the spillover parameter is higher. (author's abstract)Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series
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Daniel, Sherae Lee. "Absorptive capacity and open source software project performance." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7730.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Robert H. Smith School of Business. Dept. of Decision and Information Technologies. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Martinello, Zuleika <1989>. "Absorptive Capacity e performance imprenditoriale. Una ricerca empirica." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/3795.
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L'absorptive capacity (ACAP) è la capacità di individuare nuove informazioni, dare loro valore e utilizzarle a fini commerciali (Cohen e Levinthal, 1990).
Le informazioni sono state identificate da molti contributi precedenti, come importante fonte di sviluppo e crescita per le organizzazioni. Dal momento che l'ACAP è quella capacità volta alla loro acquisizione, assimilazione, trasformazione e quindi sfruttamento, nel presente lavoro si intende capire quanto la sua presenza in capo agli imprenditori, sia strategica per il loro successo.
Nello specifico, la ricerca condotta su un campione di imprenditori, indaga la relazione tra ACAP, innovazione, performance, reti di relazioni e internazionalizzazione. Ciò è stato possibile in particolar modo grazie al supporto di software d'analisi, come NVIVO8 e SPSS.
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Onwuzuligbo, N. (Ndidi). "Absorptive capacity and internationalization:a case study of Finnish companies." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2017. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201705101740.
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The purpose of this study is to empirically address the relationship between absorptive capacity and internationalization. Previous researchers have identified issues relating to firm’s lack of knowledge when handling international business. Absorptive capacity is the ability of firm to acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge needed to solve such problems in firm’s internationalization.
This research suggests that if a firm is able to measure its absorptive capacity, the result may improve the firm’s international business activities and performance. Reasons for absorptive capacity measurement suggested by this research is to enable firm to increase their level of internationalization by drawing from their international experiences, and to also have a better understanding of their business environment to gain new opportunities, achieve sustainable competitive advantage and to increase their survival rate in the fast growing global market.
This study is in the form of a quantitative research focusing on Finnish companies conducting international operations. A structured questionnaire was used as the data collection process by using the key informant technique with a total of 98 respondent firms in Finland as at 2013. SPSS software was used to run the statistical analysis of the study to determine the correlations between the studied variables. Consistent with prior research, the results of the study support the notion that there is a significant relationship between absorptive capacity and firm internationalization.
The study provides several implications to companies and their managers concerning firm international operations. The given results of the study illustrate that there is a need for managerial action that builds and supports organizational absorptive capacity to enable increased firm internationalization.
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Jung, Juan. "Essays on Absorptive Capacity, ICT, Spatial Externalities, and Regional Growth." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/442974.
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The objective of this thesis is to make a theoretical and empirical contribution, decoding the nature of productivity disparities across different economic actors, and providing reflections for policy advice. One of the main hypothesis is that efficiency-originated productivity gains vary largely among different economic units, as the degree of the economic impact will surely depend significantly on some characteristics of the agents under analysis (firms or regional economies). With a manifest purpose of making contributions which can enrich advice in public-policies, this thesis will focus particularly in most-disadvantaged economic units, intending to find out which circumstances can help them to converge to the most productive ones.
In the first place, we present a model which incorporates capital accumulation and spatial spillovers across economies, while allowing for regional differences in absorptive capacity. This model is estimated using a sample of EU regions, over a period including the enlargement of the single-market area in the mid-2000´s. Results confirm the relevance of local absorptive capacity, that is directly linked with the process of making the most of externalities. Capital deepening reduced the role of capital in explaining the regional productivity gap, but was not enough to help lagging regions to equal the return to human capital investments reached by most advanced regions.
In the second place, we analyze the incidence of broadband on regional productivity in Brazil, intending to find out if the economic impact is uniform across all territories of the country. The possibility of performing a regional approach, instead of the usual country-level analysis, means an opportunity to disentangle the economic impact of broadband at territories which share a common institutional and regulatory framework as are the regions inside a country. Results suggest that the impact of broadband on productivity is positive although not uniform across regions. On the one hand, it seems to depend on connection quality and network effects. Faster download speed and critical-mass accounting for network externalities in the region enhance the economic impact of broadband. On the other hand, higher productivity gains are estimated for the less developed regions. The fact that the less productive regions in Brazil seem to be benefiting more from broadband may suggest that it can constitute a factor favoring regional convergence in the country.
Finally, we test three hypotheses regarding the link between internet and firm productivity: i) internet adoption and use constitute a source of productivity growth for firms in Latin America, ii) the intensity of its use also matters, and iii) the link between the new technologies and productivity levels is not uniform over the whole productivity distribution. The evidence found fills the gap of scarce and fragmented literature focused on Latin America, and is aligned with previous research for more developed regions which has generally recognized that Information and Communication Technologies have radically changed how modern business are conducted, benefitting firm performances through several channels, such as increasing the efficiency of internal processes, expanding market reach or increasing innovation. The findings suggest that low and medium productive firms benefit more from an expansion in internet adoption and use, in comparison with the most productive ones. If this evidence is supposed to reflect long-term effects, then public policies oriented to massify internet adoption and promote internet use intensively will surely contribute to reduce inequalities of enterprise’s productivity levels, promoting a level playing field among Latin American firms, something especially relevant for the most unequal region of the world.El objetivo de esta tesis es hacer una contribución teórica y empírica, descifrando la naturaleza de las disparidades en productividad entre diferentes actores económicos y proporcionando reflexiones de política pública. Una de las principales hipótesis que se plantean en la tesis es que los aumentos de la productividad originados por mejoras en eficiencia varían considerablemente entre las diferentes unidades económicas (empresas o regiones), ya que el grado de impacto económico dependerá las características de los agentes analizados. Esta tesis se centrará especialmente en las unidades económicas más desfavorecidas, con la intención de estudiar qué circunstancias pueden ayudarlas a converger hacia las más productivas. En primer lugar, presentamos un modelo que incorpora la acumulación de capital y los efectos espaciales en la transmisión de tecnología, a la vez que permite las diferencias regionales en capacidades de absorción. Este modelo se estima utilizando una muestra de regiones de la Unión Europea, durante un período que incluye la ampliación de la zona del mercado único a mediados de los años 2000. Los resultados confirman la relevancia de la capacidad de absorción local, que está directamente vinculada al proceso de aprovechar al máximo las externalidades. La profundización del capital redujo el papel del capital para explicar la brecha de productividad regional, pero no fue suficiente para ayudar a las regiones rezagadas a igualar el retorno a las inversiones de capital humano alcanzadas por las regiones más avanzadas. En segundo lugar, analizamos la incidencia de la banda ancha sobre la productividad regional en Brasil, con la intención de estudiar si el impacto económico es uniforme en todos los territorios del país. La posibilidad de realizar un enfoque regional, en lugar del análisis habitual a nivel nacional, significa una oportunidad para descifrar el impacto económico de la banda ancha en los territorios que comparten un marco institucional y regulatorio común, como son las regiones dentro de un país. Los resultados sugieren que el impacto de la banda ancha en la productividad es positivo aunque no uniforme en todas las regiones. Por un lado, parece depender de la calidad de la conexión y de los efectos de red. Una velocidad de descarga más rápida y la existencia de una masa crítica de usuarios para generar externalidades de red aumentan el impacto económico de la banda ancha. Por otro lado, se pudo verificar que se producirán mayores aumentos de la productividad en las regiones menos desarrolladas. El hecho de que las regiones menos productivas de Brasil parezcan beneficiarse más de la banda ancha parece sugerir que dicha tecnología constituye un factor que favorece la convergencia regional en el país. Por último, probamos tres hipótesis sobre el vínculo entre Internet y la productividad a nivel empresarial: i) la adopción y el uso de Internet constituyen una fuente de crecimiento de la productividad para las empresas en América Latina, ii) la intensidad de su uso también es relevante y iii) el impacto de las nuevas tecnologías en los niveles de productividad no es uniforme para todas las empresas. La evidencia encontrada completa la brecha de una escasa y fragmentada literatura para América Latina, y está alineada con lo esperado en torno a la relevancia de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación para transformar radicalmente cómo se conducen las empresas modernas, por ejemplo, aumentando la eficiencia de los procesos internos, ampliando el alcance del mercado o aumentando la actividad innovadora. Los hallazgos sugieren que las empresas menos productivas se benefician más de una expansión en la adopción y el uso de Internet, en comparación con las más productivas. Si se supone que esta evidencia refleja efectos a largo plazo, las políticas públicas orientadas a masificar la adopción y uso de Internet seguramente contribuirán a reducir las desigualdades en los niveles de productividad entre empresas, contribuyendo a reducir disparidades internas en América Latina, una de las regiones más desiguales del mundo.
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Ndiege, Joshua Rumo Arongo. "Absorptive capacity and information technology adoption strategies in Kenyan SMEs." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1014672.
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Although Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), arguably, make up a significant part of economic development in many countries, these enterprises have continued to face challenges especially in developing countries like Kenya. With Information Technology (IT) being considered a critical component of the survival of SMEs, many are striving to invest in it. However, a number of these SMEs are still far from realising the full potential of their IT investments. In today‟s challenging and dynamic business environment, SMEs need to leverage both internal and external knowledge, exploit it to help improve and maintain their competitiveness, and consequently, their survival. This study has endeavoured to address the IT adoption strategy challenges experienced by SMEs in Kenya and other developing countries, as these have been largely flawed. The study has explored on the way in which these enterprises can build strong Absorptive Capacities (AC) and exploit these to improve their IT adoption processes through a model of AC. To achieve this, a qualitative, interpretive case study research approach was employed in this study. The findings of this study suggest that although AC plays a critical role in the performance of SMEs in Kenya, many of these enterprises have low levels of AC. It also became clear that all the SMEs that participated in the study had not attained maturity in their IT adoption process. However, SMEs that exhibited strong AC employed the use of more superior IT adoption processes than did their counterparts with low levels of AC. From the results of this study an IT Adoption Strategy Improvement Model (ITASIM) has been developed to help SMEs improve their IT adoption strategies. The model focuses on improving SMEs‟ AC and injecting these alongside the elements of a good strategy in the SMEs‟ IT adoption process. Furthermore, in order to help in the effective implementation of ITASIM, implementation guidelines have been developed.
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Schuster, Marcus. "Absorptive capacity und Anreizperspektive Wissensabsorption und Innovativität aus organisationstheoretischer Sicht." München Mering Hampp, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2818559&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Whittal-Steynberg, Tamaryn. "Leveraging technology transfer for competitive advantage in African firms." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/81684.
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Africa has long been considered as the next big growth market, according to both experts and economic organisations alike (World Economic Forum, African Union, The Economist, McKinsey). With a youthful population, a burgeoning consumption market, and its increased digital advancement, Africa has unrivalled potential. However, economic progress has lagged, necessitating the need to leapfrog, i.e., harness technological innovation to accelerate economic growth, to contribute towards realising the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal “Decent Work and Economic Growth”. Additionally, Africa cannot afford not to, given the downsides of the lack of economic growth (instability and extremism).
In academic research, technological innovation is driven by firms’ and individuals’ absorptive capacity (AC), i.e., their ability to recognise new knowledge, assimilate it, and apply it for commercial ends. However, there remains a lack of understanding on how to operationalise and leverage AC. The research was undertaken with the aim to understand AC from a micro-foundational perspective within the Africa and 4IR contexts. Qualitative research was conducted across 6 African countries (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa), with 16 social actors, to gain insights on the processes, mechanisms and factors that contribute towards micro-foundational AC.
The key findings of this research underscore the importance of the individual within the AC process. Additionally, the importance of contextualising AC to a developing market is highlighted. Other key findings reveal the enabling and hindering factors for successful AC. This research aimed to offer a contribution towards AC micro foundational research, and to offer practical insights for African firms, within the context of the 4IR era.Mini Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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Bouguerra, Abderaouf. "Absorptive capacity and organizational performance : a study of banks in Turkey." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/100548/.
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The main aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between absorptive capacity (ACAP) and organizational performance. The thesis addresses the following research questions: 1) why are some firms better at managing their potential and realized absorptive capacity than others? 2) what is the link between ACAP and organizational performance? The empirical analysis using multi-level modelling technique is drawn on data obtained from 200 managers of the banking sector in Turkey. The thesis contributes to the progress of ACAP research in three ways. First, it provides a systematic review of the fragmented literature concerning the relationship between ACAP and organizational outcomes. It identifies and analyses 214 papers on ACAP and performance published between 1990 and 2015 in high impact business and management journals. The aim is to review, organize and synthesise the relationship between ACAP and organizational performance according to research approaches used and theories applied to understand the ACAP-organizational performance link. The review moves the literature review forward by highlighting the causes of inconsistencies, providing remedies and suggesting an agenda for future research. Second, the thesis examines the antecedents of a firm’s absorptive capacity. The two components of potential absorptive capacity (PACAP) and realized absorptive capacity (RACAP), are treated separately, in order to assess the moderating effects of market-sensing and responsiveness capabilities. The findings from multi-level analyses, show that while coordination facilitates the development of potential absorptive capacity, systems and socialization enhance the firm’s realized absorptive capacity. Further, market sensing capability moderates the relationship between coordination and PACAP, and market responsiveness capability moderates the relationship between socialization and RACAP. Also, market responsiveness capability moderates the relationship between systems and RACAP. Drawing on these findings, this study contributes to ACAP research by elucidating that market sensing and responsiveness are prerequisite capabilities for effective acquisition and exploitation of knowledge. Third, this research assesses how ACAP’s two components, PACAP and RACAP, separately and jointly affect organizational performance. The findings indicate that the combined effect of potential and realized absorptive capacities on organizational performance is greater than the separate effect of the two components. Further, this study reports that the combined effect becomes stronger when organizations operate at a low level of environmental dynamism, and possess a high level of network size. Drawing on these results, the study stresses that potential and realized absorptive capacities are complementary in enhancing superior performance, and indeed this relationship is context dependent.
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Azzam, Ala'a Mahmoud Mohammad. "Architectural innovation capability and performance : the moderating role of absorptive capacity." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12168/.
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Knowledge processing capabilities including knowledge creation and absorptive capacity are required to renew a firm’s knowledge stock. These capabilities keep firms abreast of technological and market changes as they enable a proactive approach in responding to these changes. An outdated knowledge stock and the overlooking of changes in external knowledge are destructive in today’s competitive environment; firms in these circumstances risk being caught in competency traps and rigidities. Hence, knowledge exploitation has an indispensable role in enhancing innovation. This thesis focuses on architectural innovation which is the capability to reconfigure products’ components and so create novel products. It requires the creation of new architectural knowledge while reserving the component knowledge. Although this innovation capability relies profoundly on creating new architectural knowledge, it is also important that firms are competent in absorbing external knowledge. Although the literature on new product development performance captures innovation as a prerequisite of performance, it is yet unclear how architectural innovation capability affects performance. Therefore, this thesis explores the interaction effect of architectural innovation capability and absorptive capacity on firms’ performance. Although knowledge creation coined with organisation’s absorptive capacity drive innovation, the innovation literature over the last two decades emphasises integrating knowledge from external sources, particularly from lead users. Lead users’ contribution to product quality is one of the under-researched areas. In addition to the dearth of empirical research, quality was measured by experts’ judgment; it is possible that this judgment may be a biased evaluation of quality compared with a quantitative scale devoted to measure quality. To overcome the previous research’s limitation in measuring quality, this research examines how lead users’ integration promotes product quality as measured using a validated scale. The developed theoretical framework links knowledge creation with architectural innovation capability; at the same time it explores the interaction effect of architectural innovation capability and absorptive capacity on new product development performance. Furthermore, the theoretical model captures the effect of lead users’ integration on development time and product quality. Empirical findings, based on primary data collected from 196 UK manufacturing companies show that, knowledge creation modes (socialisation and internalisation) have a positive effect on enhancing architectural innovation capability. Also, absorptive capacity interaction with architectural innovation capability affects financial performance. Assimilation and transformation strengthen innovation’s impact on performance, while exploitation weakens this effect. Finally, the analysis shows that the integration of lead users positively affects development speed and product quality. Overall, this study contributes to the literature on knowledge processing capabilities by suggesting that knowledge creation is one of the underlying capabilities needed for innovation. In addition, this research contributes to the sheer amount of literature on absorptive capacity, by suggesting that different capacities have different effects on innovation and performance. The major value added by this research relates to architectural innovation capability; the findings suggest that both knowledge processing capabilities and absorptive capacity affect the capability to create new linkages between product components and technologies.
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Diaz-Molina, Ivan. "THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC AND OPERATIONAL ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY IN ORGANIZATIONAL AMBIDEXTERITY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/544449.
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In today’s dynamic corporate environment where firms struggle to maintain a competitive advantage, ambidextrous firms focusing on both exploration and exploitation are more likely to survive and prosper in the long run. Scholars have identified and examined a number of antecedents of organizational ambidexterity, but extant studies have not fully explored the role of a firm’s absorptive capacity in developing its organizational ambidexterity. The relevance of the absorptive capacity concept is paramount since new sources of competitive advantage would very likely come from outside the organizations. In this research, I explore the relationship between a firm’s absorptive capacity and organizational ambidexterity by focusing on two levels of absorptive capacity and three dimensions of organizational ambidexterity. Using a survey of 5,600 companies performed by the Government of Chile in 2015, and then a subsample of panel data that includes 760 companies for the 2009-2014 period, I find that both strategic and operational absorptive capacity contribute to the incremental exploitation dimension of organizational ambidexterity. My study contributes to our understanding of the absorptive capacity construct and illuminates how it affects organizational ambidexterity. The study also provides managerial implications as to what kind of external knowledge to procure and how to leverage it based on the firm’s ambidexterity goals.
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Miller, Tanya Kay. "The informed manager : exploring absorptive capacity in the non-profit sector." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2014. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67562/1/Tanya_Miller_Thesis.pdf.
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Being across new knowledge is critical to the survival of individual businesses. This study explored the way in which managers of small social services in Queensland identified important new knowledge and brought this into their organisations.
New knowledge was found to be highly valued by managers with key resources allocated to knowledge seeking processes particularly in response to regulatory change. Knowledge absorption involved accessing multiple sources, and external professional networks were found to be critical to understanding and integrating new knowledge. The research highlighted the challenges in securing new knowledge and the importance of managers professional links.
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Lawer, Christopher. "How does absorptive capacity influence the origin and evolution of dynamic capabilities." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2010. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/4636.
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In this thesis, I deploy a qualitative case-study method to examine the influence of a firm’s absorptive capacity of external knowledge on the origin and evolution of dynamic capabilities.
First, I make an attempt to reduce some of the conceptual and definitional confusion in the dynamic capabilities literature by developing and then validating a conceptual framework for their study in the field.
Second, to examine the underlying mechanisms leading to the origination and evolution of dynamic capabilities, I call on recent literature on the absorptive capacity construct that calls for more understanding of how absorptive capacity can produce and develop dynamic capabilities. I do so in the context of stated weaknesses in the absorptive capacity literature, namely that there is an R&D functional bias, a scientific and technical knowledge content bias (linked to R&D) at the expense of process knowledge, and a methodological preference for quantitative, descriptive studies.
Third, with absorptive capacity as my lens – specifically potential absorptive capacity which is only concerned with the acquiring and assimilation, not the application, of new external knowledge by a firm (after Zahra and George, 2002) - I make an attempt to reveal the constituent processes of dynamic capabilities.
Fourth, I discuss and reflect whether the development of absorptive capacity can be a dynamic capability in itself and what effects, if any, absorptive capacity has on existing or new dynamic capabilities and the firm’s resource base.
Finally, by focusing on dynamic capabilities as processes (or the “how” of change) and absorptive capacity of knowledge of customer needs as the content (or the “what” of change) that is flowing through those processes, I make a tentative contribution to calls for the integration of the divergent research streams of strategy as process and strategy as content (Helfat with Maritan, 2007).
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Schonning, Aud Randi. "Investigating absorptive capacity in boards, corporate governance and the value creating board." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/297448.
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Within corporate governance research, boards of directors constitute an essential part and are described as "the apex of the internal control system" (Jensen, 1993, p.862). Several stands of research have investigated whether, and to which degree, boards’ composition, structure and processes have impact on board task performance, but board processes and specifically the use of knowledge and skills have not been thoroughly researched, yet. Simultaneously, there is a gap within organisational behaviour research on how knowledge is explored, transformed and exploited, which is conceptualised as absorptive capacity. Further, the concept of absorptive capacity has so to date not been researched in a board context. In this thesis board processes are studied by exploring the impact of absorptive capacity on board task performance. Three dimensions of absorptive capacity, exploratory learning, transformative learning and exploitative learning, are used in the analyses. The research is conducted using mixed methods (based on a survey and a case study). A quantitative analysis is based on the Norwegian Value Creating Board Survey, and a case study is conducted based on records, observations from board meetings and interviews in the Norwegian health company Healthy. The findings show that the three dimensions of absorptive capacity, positively and significantly, mediate the relation between presence of knowledge and skills and board task performance. Complementarities between the three learning processes exist with the result that the three learning processes together are a stronger mediator than a single process. The qualitative findings show that 1) information flows have an impact on absorptive capacity, 2) that the role and power of the CEO and the division of labour between the CEO and the chair, might have an impact on board task performance and 3) that a comprehensive utilisation of consensus has an impact on transformative and exploitative learning, 4) that effort norms are positively correlated to use of knowledge and skills and 5) that activation triggers have impacts on the learning processes. The research contributes to theory with an extended application of the concept of absorptive capacity to boards, responding to calls from researchers to conduct new and more extensive research to analyse and integrate the concept. The thesis further contributes by shedding new light on learning processes in boards, underpinning former conceptual models. In the case study several findings are reported which are presented in an extended and modified model of determinants of board tasks. Finally, this thesis contributes to mixed methods research in boards. The findings have implications for board practice with regard to board selections, board evaluations and learning processes in boards. Corporate governance codes should be aligned with these findings.
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Papadia, Cinzia. "Plasma citrulline concentration : A biomarker of entercyte absorptive capacity in intestinal failure." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.516555.
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Kosanke, Christoph [Verfasser]. "Absorptive Capacity - Eine empirische Analyse bewährter Praktiken und auftretender Barrieren / Christoph Kosanke." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1075190789/34.
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Srivastava, Saurabh. "Exploring the Relationship between Strategic Thinking and Absorptive Capacity: A Proposed Typology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1062902/.
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Absorptive capacity plays an important role in the organizational adaptation process. Prior research on absorptive capacity focuses on its role in organizational outcomes such as financial performance, innovation, new product development, etc. Recently, scholars have called for research on factors that influence absorptive capacity. Because absorptive capacity plays a vital role in achieving organizational outcomes, it behooves us to improve our understanding of absorptive capacity and its antecedents to serve both researchers and practitioners. In this investigation, strategic thinking is posited to be a key antecedent of absorptive capacity. Capability theory suggests that strategic thinking is a metaphysical (higher order) capability that influences an organization's absorptive capacity. Combining this argument with Miles and Snow's typology of organizational adaptation process, it is posited that the relationship between strategic thinking and absorptive capacity can be clustered into different "groups." Prospectors, defenders, and analyzers, characterized in Miles and Snow's typology of firms are viewed as distinctive groups that exhibit different relationships between strategic thinking and absorptive capacity. Results from an empirical examination suggest that strategic thinking is positively related to absorptive capacity. The results also suggest that the relationship between these two constructs is different between these groups and that the strategic thinking of prospectors has a weaker relationship with absorptive capacity than other type of firms.
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Dosmagambet, Yergali. "Technological absorptive capacity and productivity dynamics : with a special reference to Kazakhstan." Clermont-Ferrand 1, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008CLF10008.
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Une nouvelle spécification de la distance à la frontière est proposée en termes de barrières à l’adoption dans la diffusion technologique de Nelson-Phelps. Des coûts élevés liés à l’adoption technologique limitent le processus de rattrapage de la frontière mondiale. La nouvelle forme de la productivité, renforcée par l’évidence empirique, permet de modéliser les régimes multiples de convergence vers les points stationnaires. La performance impressionnante de l’Asie du Sud montre qu’il existe un lien fort entre une augmentation de la force de travail avec une éducation professionnelle (V) par rapport à celle avec une éducation générale (G) et leur somme (taille de l’éducation secondaire). La littérature récente présente une évidence empirique mentionnant la tendance à la hausse du ratio de l’éducation professionnelle à l’éducation régionale aux pays avec les revenus moyens. Cela renforce considérablement l’importance de l’éducation secondaire dans l’adoption technologique et permettrait d’appliquer la théorie de la croissance moderne aux pays en transition. Un modèle est proposé en vue d’analyser les interrelations entre le ratio (V/G) et la taille de l’éducation secondaire et les directions dans lesquelles ils interagissent. Finalement, le concept de Lucas est revisité pour montrer que l’éducation secondaire s’ajuste à l’adoption technologique. Par conséquent, le ratio V/G pourrait être utilisé à la place du taux de scolarisation secondaire dans le modèle de Nelson-Phelps afin de rétablir les liens avec la productivité dans les recherches empiriques. Un potentiel de rattrapage à long terme est analysé avec un modèle d’équilibre général pour Kazakhstan. Ainsi, la croissance du progrès technique, mesuré en termes des barrières à l’adoption technologique, montre que l’économie, tout d’abord, converge vers le premier point stationnaire, déterminé de façon endogène par l’interaction entre les barrières à l’adoption technologique avec la productivitéA new specification of the distance to technology frontier as relative barriers to technology adoption generalizes the Nelson-Phelps catching-up model of technology diffusion. Higher costs of technology adoption constrain the catch-up process with the world technology frontier. Therefore, the new pattern of productivity gives scope for modeling the multiple regimes of convergence to the steady states. Supported by empirical evidence it allows for interpreting a catching-up in terms of barriers to technology adoption. Next, East Asia’s impressive economic performance shows that there is a strong link between a relative increase in vocational education and the size of secondary education. Recent literature presents empirical evidence that the ratio of vocational (V) to general (G) education tends to be higher in middle income countries. Thus, it substantially strengthens that secondary education is important in technology adoption and thereby, seemingly allows for applying the modern growth theory in transition economy. The insights are explored with a model in which the main differences between stemming from raising productivity and increasing the size of secondary education, and the directions in which they work altogether are analyzed. Finally, the concept of Lucas is revisited to demonstrate that secondary education structurally adjusts to technology adoption. Therefore, the ratio of VG can be used in place of gross secondary enrolments in the Nelson-Phelps catch-up model of technology diffusion to re-established the links with productivity growth in empirical studies. The potential of long-run catch-up toward the technology frontier is analyzed with a computable general equilibrium model for Kazakhstan. The pattern of productivity growth, measured in terms of barriers to technology adoption, reveals that the economy converges initially to lower steady state, endogenously determined by the interaction between the barriers to technology adoption and productivity growth
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Nakale, Metusalem. "To what extent do informal learning and technology transfer impact absorptive capacity?" Thesis, University of Leicester, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/32901.
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This thesis aimed to investigate the extent to which informal learning and technology transfer impact absorptive capacity and to uncover how individual social agents contribute to the development of absorptive capacity. Research on absorptive capacity has hitherto mainly focused on the use of proxies such as R&D intensity and the number of PhD holders in organizations to measure absorptive capacity. This preoccupation with proxies has retarded progress with respect to our understanding of how absorptive capacity is developed. The literature review revealed that most previous studies employed the quantitative paradigm and failed to capture the contextual dimensions of absorptive capacity. Most studies focused mainly on organizational level aspects thereby neglecting the individual antecedents of absorptive capacity. In order to reveal aspects of absorptive capacity development that quantitative studies are unable reveal, this study employed a qualitative paradigm, based on the constructionist philosophy. The data were generated through the use of semi-structured interviews, supplemented by field notes. The data analysis drew on the grounded theory approach. The evidence generated by this study shows that informal learning and knowledge/ technology transfer impact the ability to integrate and use external knowledge through individual agency. The findings also show that individual employees rely on their cognitive resources to acquire knowledge. Further, the results suggest that working with others, interacting with them, helps with knowledge transfer and institutionalization. The main implications of this study are that managers need to facilitate the creation of more learning opportunities in the workplace. Such learning has the potential to contribute significantly to the aspiration of creating a knowledge economy, especially in the context of Namibia. Also, organizations need to forge more links with industrial forerunners in order to learn from them and build up their own technological capabilities.
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Wetter, Erik. "Patterns of performance in new firms : estimating the effects of absorptive capacity." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (EFI), 2009. http://www2.hhs.se/efi/summary/783.htm.
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Ajeeli, Saher. "The mediating role of absorptive capacity on the relationship between intellectual capital and firm performance in high-tech SMEs, UK." Thesis, Bangor University, 2018. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-mediating-role-of-absorptive-capacity-on-the-relationship-between-intellectual-capital-and-firm-performance-in-hightech-smes-uk(697afa38-8263-4c06-a81f-ccc3ae85f05c).html.
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In a fast changing business environment with accelerated technological development, new knowledge resources and developing dynamic capabilities are becoming vital issues in economic knowledge. Drawing on the Resource-based View in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and competitive dynamics perspectives, there has been a recent rise in the number of practitioners and academics integrating the knowledge resources of SMEs, which are intellectual capital (IC) and absorptive capacity (ACAP) to achieve superior performance. The main objective of this study is to investigate the mediating role of absorptive capacity on the relationship between intellectual capital and firm performance in high-tech sector SMEs in the UK. Current research proposed a model for the direct and indirect relationships of IC- performance through ACAP, thereby increasing contributions to knowledge in the field of strategic management. A research conceptual framework was developed with reliance on an existing body of literature in the field of study. It integrates the effects of intellectual capital with absorptive capacity to create and develop dynamic capabilities in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and the publishing of computer games firms. A quantitative research employing surveys, the selected method of study was justified, because of the number of SMEs and their being geographically widespread around the UK. A five-point Likert-type scale has been used to measure research variables. A research conceptual framework has been developed and tested by using a structural equational modelling methodology. The results of this study suggested that high-tech SMEs could enhance and improve their financial outcome, if they associate and integrate the firm’s intellectual capital with the firm’s absorptive capacity to create or develop dynamic capabilities, which has greater significant effects on firm performance. This research concludes by saying that high performance firms respond rapidly to new knowledge and also that there is a strong association between IC and ACAP affecting the performance of SMEs. It is also concluded that CEOs and managers are able to enhance the level of performance in high-tech SMEs by the creation or development of dynamic capabilities through the integration between firm IC and ACAP.
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Cheng, Yangqing. "The role of absorptive capacity in EMNEs' strategic asset-seeking internationalization : a case study of four Chinese MNEs." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-absorptive-capacity-in-emnes-strategic-assetseeking-internationalizationa-case-study-of-four-chinese-mnes(d0f4bdfc-052b-492f-84ed-effede0ab234).html.
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Many studies have highlighted that EMNEs are utilizing strategic asset-seeking (SAS) internationalization as a means to upgrade their capabilities and build up their competitive advantages (Lecraw, 1993; Makino et al., 2002; Child and Rodrigues, 2005). However, no research has specifically examined or directly studied how a firm's internal capability, with the particular focus on absorptive capacity, influences the outcome of EMNEs' SAS international activities. The overall aim of this research is to explore how absorptive capacity of EMNEs influences the outcome of their SAS internationalization, specifically focusing on two key dimensions of absorptive capacity, i.e. the ability to identify external assets, and the ability to acquire external assets. Given the exploratory nature of this research, a qualitative multiple case study method was adopted. Altogether, four Chinese MNEs were selected with a total of 10 SAS events conducted by them respectively. We clearly demonstrated the linkages between firms' absorptive capacity and SAS outcomes. We found that the outcome of case companies' SAS events were not effective in terms of gaining substantial assets, rather case companies can gain reputation and other benefits through the events. We found a new element comprising absorptive capacity, i.e. the ability to retain the acquired assets. We argued that it is a precondition for assimilation to happen. We demonstrated how firms' absorptive capacity in the dimensions of identification, acquisition and the new emerged dimension, i.e. retention ability, together influenced their SAS outcomes. We also explored the underpinning factors for each dimension of absorptive capacity. An integrated model was developed. Our study is the first to specifically explore the linkage between absorptive capacity and EMNEs' SAS internationalization. We made several contributions to international business literature on SAS events and literature on absorptive capacity respectively. Specifically, we attempted to gain understanding of why EMNEs' SAS strategies may or may not be fully effective, to enhance our understanding of absorptive capacity issues in emerging country contexts, and to achieve potential conceptual enrichment.
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Suryandari, Retno Tanding. "Creating Value by Enhancing Innovative Capability: the Role of Absorptive Capacity and Institutional Framework." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699854/.
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Innovations as a source of economic wellbeing and social prosperity has been well researched, albeit primarily done in the context of developed economies. However, of late, interest in the effect of innovation on economic performance and quality of life has been renewed as the world observes the rise of emerging economies, and at the same time, the prolonged recession in the more developed economies (i.e. North America and European countries). There has been a marked increase in the quantity and quality of research and development, spawn by innovative companies from emerging economies that are making their mark in global marketplace. These phenomena challenge the traditional concept that innovation flows from the resource rich developed countries to less developed countries, and that the latter are at a disadvantage in terms of knowledge, technology and competitiveness. Existing studies on national innovation highlight the relationships between innovative capability and its outcomes; however, few have tried to explain the determinants of a nation’s innovative capabilities. Using a sample of 95 countries and panel data analysis covering 28 years of observation, this study attempts to model the determinants of innovative capability at national level, and focuses on absorptive capacity and institutional framework as the main determinants of innovative capability. Further, this study identifies different aspects of absorptive capacity: creation and exploitation of innovation. Findings offer support on the importance of various sources of external knowledge in the creation of innovation, with FDI inflow and High Technology Export as the strongest sources. Corruption as institutional factor has negative effect on innovative capability, whereas openness shows no effect. National absorptive capacity moderates the effect of external knowledge on innovative capability, except on FDI outflow in which a negative effect on trademark application as a measure of innovative capability. The findings suggest that innovative capability and moderating role of absorptive capacity enhance economic wellbeing. Findings show that economic wellbeing increases happiness and income inequality (as the measures of quality of life); same thing as innovative capability, which also increases both happiness and income inequality. This study demonstrates that for happiness, higher education and better infrastructure (as the measure of foundational absorptive capacity) decrease the level of happiness. Higher education and ease access to information may increase expectation, which lead to unhappiness when the expectation is not met. For income inequality, negative effect of the moderating role of absorptive capacity means that higher education and better infrastructure contribute to lowering income inequality. Based on these findings, a nation should continue to attract FDI and trade in high technology because these sources of knowledge contribute to innovative capability. Policy makers can develop country positioning and country’s marketing activities by using the combination of the improvement of national factors and policy reforms. The upgrading of national factors helps to achieve higher economic wellbeing and quality of life in general.
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Kuss, Matthias Johannes. "Absorptive capacity, environmental strategy and competitive advantage : the case of the chemical industry /." Zürich : ETH, 2009. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=18253.
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Dröge, Henning. "Opening up innovation in services: absorptive capacity in radical and incremental service innovation." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/9184.
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En els darrers anys, nombroses organitzacions han començat a obrir-se a enfocaments més orientats a l'exterior i a la innovació oberta, mogudes per la incertesa creixent i un dinamisme més gran, que en caracteritzen l'entorn extern. Consegüentment, a les organitzacions els cal aprendre ràpidament sobre aquest canvi i adquirir coneixements nous per poder reaccionar davant les noves condicions externes. Com a resposta d'això, ha aparegut, com un concepte important, la capacitat absortiva d'una empresa (a firm's absorptive capacity, ACAP), definida com la capacitat per "reconèixer el valor de la informació externa nova, assimilar-la i aplicar-la a finalitats comercials" (Cohen i Levinthal, 1990: 128).Estudis recents han tendit a conceptualitzar la capacitat absortiva com un concepte estàtic i s'han centrat, principalment, en la base de coneixements que resideix dins de l'organització absorbent o en les condicions antecedents de l'ACAP. A resultes d'això, els processos que actuen en les organitzacions per absorbir el coneixement extern no han estat un element focal de la investigació fins ara. A més, mentre que la recerca en innovació del producte ja ha revelat unes primeres perspectives valuoses, en la literatura relativa a la innovació en serveis, l'aprenentatge extern continua essent un dels temes menys tractats per la recerca, tot i que diversos investigadors n'han reclamat més en aquest terreny. Partint d'aquesta necessitat d'obtenir una visió més profunda del procés d'aprenentatge extern en els serveis, la finalitat d'aquesta tesi va ser millorar la comprensió dels factors i els procediments necessaris per absorbir amb èxit el coneixement extern en les innovacions radicals i incrementals de serveis.
La contribució principal de la tesi ha estat la identificació d'un model de procés d'ACAP que tingui en compte les idiosincràsies de la innovació radical i incremental de serveis. A més, el procés d'ACAP que es va identificar va ser analitzat pel que fa a la seva relació amb el procés d'innovació general, en el qual es va identificar la importància que hi hagi un flux paral·lel i alineat entre els processos d'innovació i absorció. Finalment, s'ha evidenciat que el model de procés identificat està influenciat per diversos facilitadors i inhibidors interns i externs. Consegüentment, doncs, aquesta tesi proporciona una visió holística de les activitats reeixides d'aprenentatge extern en la innovació radical i incremental de serveis.
La presentació d'un estudi sobre la capacitat absortiva en serveis que es basa en dades qualitatives ha permès una comprensió més rica del fenomen davant de la informació de què es disposava abans. Aquest estudi en profunditat de projectes d'innovació individuals ha contribuït a identificar un model molt més dinàmic d'absorbir informació externa del que es reflectia en la investigació en curs. Així mateix, la inclusió de casos d'èxit i de conflicte ha reforçat les conclusions globals. A més, s'ha concretat que absorbir informació externa durant els projectes d'innovació pot resultar un fracàs i afectar negativament el resultat global de la innovació. Així, doncs, l'absorció d'informació externa en la innovació de serveis requereix una atenció directiva forta.
En los últimos años, numerosas organizaciones han empezado a abrirse a enfoques más orientados al exterior y a la innovación abierta, movidas por la creciente incertidumbre y el mayor dinamismo que caracterizan su entorno externo. En consecuencia, las organizaciones necesitan aprender rápidamente sobre este cambio y adquirir nuevos conocimientos para poder reaccionar ante las nuevas condiciones externas. Como respuesta a ello, ha aparecido como un concepto importante la capacidad absortiva de una empresa (a firm's absorptive capacity, ACAP), definida como su capacidad para "reconocer el valor de la nueva información externa, asimilarla y aplicarla a fines comerciales" (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990: 128).
Estudios recientes han tendido a conceptualizar la capacidad absortiva como un concepto estático y se han centrado principalmente en la base de conocimientos que reside dentro de la organización absorbente o en las condiciones antecedentes de la ACAP. Como resultado de ello, los procesos que actúan en las organizaciones para absorber el conocimiento externo no han sido un elemento focal de la investigación hasta el momento. Además, mientras que la investigación en innovación del producto ya ha revelado unas primeras perspectivas valiosas, en la literatura relativa a la innovación en servicios, el aprendizaje externo sigue siendo uno de los temas menos abordados por la investigación, si bien varios investigadores han reclamado más investigaciones en este terreno. Partiendo de esta necesidad de obtener una visión más profunda del proceso de aprendizaje externo en los servicios, la finalidad de esta tesis fue mejorar la comprensión de los factores y procedimientos necesarios para absorber con éxito el conocimiento externo en las innovaciones radicales e incrementales de servicios.
La principal contribución de la tesis ha sido la identificación de un modelo de proceso de ACAP que tome en consideración las idiosincrasias de la innovación radical e incremental de servicios. Además, el proceso de ACAP identificado fue analizado en cuanto a su relación con el proceso de innovación general, en el que se identificó la importancia de que exista un flujo paralelo y alineado entre los procesos de innovación y absorción. Finalmente, se ha evidenciado que el modelo de proceso identificado está influenciado por numerosos facilitadores e inhibidores internos y externos. En consecuencia, la presente tesis proporciona una visión holística de las actividades exitosas de aprendizaje externo en la innovación radical e incremental de servicios.
La presentación de un estudio sobre la capacidad absortiva en servicios basado en datos cualitativos ha permitido una comprensión más rica del fenómeno frente a la información de que se disponía antes. Este estudio en profundidad de proyectos de innovación individuales ha contribuido a identificar un modelo mucho más dinámico de absorber información externa de lo que se reflejaba en la investigación en curso. Asimismo, la inclusión de casos de éxito y de conflicto ha reforzado las conclusiones globales. Además, se ha concretado que absorber información externa durante los proyectos de innovación puede resultar un fracaso y afectar negativamente al resultado global de la innovación. Así pues, la absorción de información externa en la innovación de servicios requiere una fuerte atención directiva.
In recent years, many organisations have started to shift from rather closed to more externally oriented, open innovation approaches, driven by increasing uncertainty and dynamism in their external environment. In consequence, organisations need to learn about such change fast and have to acquire new knowledge in order to react to new external conditions. In response, a firm's absorptive capacity (ACAP), defined as the capability of a firm "to recognise the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends" (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990: 128) has emerged as an important concept.
Recent studies have frequently conceptualised absorptive capacity as a static concept and have focused mainly on the knowledge base residing within the absorbing organisation or antecedent conditions of ACAP. As a result, the processes operating in organisations to absorb external knowledge have not been a focal element of existing work. In addition, while research on product innovation has already revealed first valuable insights, in service innovation literature, external learning is still one of the least researched topics, even though several researchers have called for more research in this domain. Based on this need for more insight into the external learning process in services, the aim of this thesis was to enhance understanding of the factors and procedures required to successfully absorb external knowledge during radical and incremental service innovations.
The primary contribution of this thesis constituted the identification of an ACAP process model which takes into consideration the idiosyncrasies of radical and incremental service innovation. Further, the identified ACAP process was analysed regarding its relation to the general innovation process in which the importance of a parallel, aligned flow of both the innovation and the absorption process was identified. Finally, it crystallised that this identified process model is influenced by a number of internal and external facilitators and inhibitors. In consequence, this thesis provides a holistic account of successful external learning activities in radical and incremental service innovation.
As a result of presenting a study on absorptive capacity in services which was based upon qualitative data, this allowed for the identification of a much richer understanding of the phenomenon than was previously available. The in-depth study of individual innovation projects allowed for the identification of a much more dynamic model of absorbing external information than was reflected in current research. Furthermore, the inclusion of both successful and struggling case examples strengthened overall findings. In addition, it crystallised that absorbing external information during innovation projects can fail and may negatively affect the overall outcome of innovation. Hence, absorbing external information during service innovation calls for intensive managerial attention.
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Miller, Kristel. "Exploring the knowledge processes within university technology transfer : through and absorptive capacity lens." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.551139.
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With the emergence of the knowledge based economy, universities have undertaken a new 'entrepreneurial' role whereby they can contribute directly to economic development through the commercialisation of knowledge residing within universities. However, to ensure technologies are successfully transferred from universities to industry, there is a need to understand the knowledge processes between multiple stakeholders and how they can be managed. Absorptive capacity has emerged as an important construct for understanding complex knowledge exchanges between entities. Therefore, this thesis focuses on an in-depth exploration of the knowledge processes within university technology transfer through an absorptive capacity lens. The research undertook an exploratory qualitative study with the aim of inductively building theory in an under-researched area. The data collection methods employed were in-depth interviews with multiple stakeholders, observation and document analysis. The findings of this study resulted in the identification of 6 key themes, namely, human factors, stakeholder roles, power relationships, knowledge source, organisational factors and external influences which all need to be considered to improve university technology transfer effectiveness. Each of these themes and corresponding subthemes were found to have varying impact on the sharing, transfer, acquisition, absorption and exploitation of knowledge. Thus, stressing the importance of strategically managing the knowledge exchanges and flows that take place between university technology transfer stakeholders so that knowledge can be leveraged to aid university technology transfer success. As a result of the findings, a conceptual absorptive capacity based framework was developed respresenting the complex knowledge processes involved in university technology commercialisation, thus aiding theoretical development. In addition, practical recommendations are made which should aid future university technology transfer success.
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Massa, Nathaniel P. "Internationalisation of traditional, small and medium-sized family businesses : an absorptive capacity approach." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3345/.
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This thesis investigates the internationalisation of Maltese small and medium-sized family businesses (SMFBs) engaged in more traditional economic activity. Despite family businesses dominating enterprise populations worldwide, and increasing policy awareness acknowledging their leading role in socio-economic development, research into the internationalisation of family businesses remains extremely limited. Addressing this gap, this study examines the internationalisation of these under-researched firms, investigating how their unique characteristics and circumstances impact and effect on internationalisation dynamics and processes. The overarching exploratory research question driving the central thrust of this study is: ‘What is the nature and extent of internationalisation among SMFBs in this context?’ In increasingly competitive globalised markets, understanding such dynamics is important at firm and national levels. Subsequently, given the established fundamental role of knowledge in internationalisation, this study seeks further understanding asking: ‘How do such SMFBs approach knowledge requirements associated with internationalisation, as proposed by the absorptive capacity (ACAP) approach?’ In adopting an ACAP approach, this research explores and examines how information and knowledge associated with internationalisation is acquired, assimilated and exploited. Given that hardly any research exists at the domain intersects which this thesis addresses, it synthesises and draws together research from the distinct fields of small firm internationalisation, family business, and emerging ACAP research. Seeking context-rich meanings, a qualitative, case-based approach involving eight SMFBs was adopted. Focus converged onto specific internationalisation events. First, in-depth analysis of the SMFBs’ outward internationalisation processes from first steps was undertaken – tracing SMFBs’ evolution, development and international activity over time. Secondly, adopting an ACAP approach and building on acquired insights guiding further investigation, an analytic framework was developed integrating internationalisation events with associated ACAP dynamics. The SMFBs’ internationalisation was found to be mainly influenced by the entrepreneur system, managers’ characteristics and volition, idiosyncratic circumstances and environmental dynamics. Contrasting with internationalisation process theories (IPT) traditionally attributed to this context, SMFBs were also observed internationalising from inception, or rapidly as ‘born again internationals’ at a mature stage. Despite size-related resource limitations, in instances owner-MDs creatively engaged in more committing modes and FDI – leapfrogging internationalisation stages. Such behaviour not being sufficiently explained or accommodated by IPT or INV perspectives, this thesis underlined importance in adopting more holistic approaches, integrating social and relational as well as resource perspectives in investigating complex phenomena associated with internationalisation. Novel in adopting an ACAP approach in this context, key findings converged on the crucial centrality of the founder / owner-MD and the vital role of social contacts and relationships in determining SMFB internationalisation and associated ACAP. A main contribution of this research inheres in its empirically derived insights and the development of a conceptual approach on these tacit core elements organically determining internationalisation, associated ACAP dynamics and capability in traditionally-oriented SMFBs. This departs from existing operationalisations which emphasise formal and structured knowledge processes within knowledge-intensive corporate environments – incompatible with this research’s context, notwithstanding ACAP’s universal relevance. Findings highlight the importance of delicately balancing management and family dynamics, a double-edged prime source of competitive advantage (or disadvantage) directly influencing both ACAP and internationalisation capability. This thesis concludes with a discussion of the implications for theory, management and policy.
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Daspit, Josh. "Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Examination of the Phenomenon and Relationships with Firm Capabilities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115064/.
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The field of strategic management addresses challenges that firms encounter in an attempt to remain competitive. The ability to explain variation in firm success through examination of knowledge flows has become a prominent focus of research in the strategic management literature. Specifically, researchers have sought to further examine how firms convert knowledge, a phenomenon conceptualized as absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity is the firm’s ability to acquire, assimilate, transform, and exploit knowledge. Few studies have captured the richness and multi-dimensionality of absorptive capacity, and it remains to be understood how the dimensions of the phenomenon convert knowledge. Furthermore, how absorptive capacity influences the firm remains to be understood. To address these research gaps, this dissertation seeks to (1) determine how absorptive capacity converts knowledge, and (2) determine how absorptive capacity influences firm capabilities. The research questions are investigated using structural modeling techniques to analyze data collected from software-industry firms. The findings offer contributions to the absorptive capacity and capability literatures. For example, absorptive capacity is hypothesized to consist of complex relationships among its internal dimensions. However, findings of this study suggest the relationships among the dimensions are linear in nature. This finding is in line with the theoretical foundations of and early literature on absorptive capacity but contrary to recent conceptualizations, which suggests relationships among the dimensions are more closely related to the theoretical origins of absorptive capacity. Additionally, to examine how absorptive capacity influences the firm, a capability-based perspective is used to hypothesize the influence of absorptive capacity on firm capabilities. Findings suggest absorptive capacity positively influences each dimension of firm capabilities (e.g., operational, customer, and innovation capabilities); thus, absorptive capacity influences the firm by altering firm capabilities. Given the richness of the findings, numerous fields are likely to benefit from this investigation. Through an examination of absorptive capacity and capabilities, this study contributes to the understanding of the absorptive capacity phenomenon and offers insight into how the phenomenon influences the firm. Furthermore, practical implications are offered for managers interested in enhancing firm competitiveness.
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Cay, Gillian Elizabeth. "Resolving the growth challenges of high technology new ventures : an absorptive capacity perspective." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3383/.
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This thesis examines how high technology new ventures (HTNVs) in the life science industry in Scotland leverage external knowledge to resolve challenges that they face at critical events to enable the firm to grow. The theoretical approach is holistic, drawing on the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and internationalisation, which are all key drivers of the growth of HTNVs. Reviews of this diverse literature point to the key role of knowledge for the growth of these firms, however, little is known about the processes and routines that enable them to leverage knowledge. Therefore, the construct of absorptive capacity (ACAP) is an appropriate lens to investigate how HTNVs resolve growth challenges by leveraging external knowledge. As this is a complex issue, this exploratory study takes a holistic view, drawing on the interpretivist paradigm, and utilises in-depth case studies to examine key challenges that firms face at critical events, and the knowledge leverage processes associated with these events. A key finding is that HTNVs experiencing rapid growth have to address a number of growth challenges simultaneously in relation to the three key drivers of growth. Therefore, the knowledge processes that support this activity transcend functional boundaries and are interlinked with and interdependent on these simultaneous business processes. With limited internal resources, the demand of these firms for external knowledge to resolve these challenges is acute. The six types of knowledge that firms were found to require are: market, technical, managerial, regulatory, internationalisation and relational knowledge. The firm’s ability to combine different types of knowledge from outwith the firm and from within the firm’s knowledge stocks to find solutions for the challenges they face is important for their growth. The major contribution of this thesis is that the pace of the leverage of knowledge at critical events is maximised when HTNVs have multiple enablers of ACAP in place. This has emerged from combining other findings on key enablers and temporality of ACAP. A new process model of ACAP is proposed, which highlights the connection between the individual- and firm-level ACAP, and emphasises the importance of effective communication within the firm and the effective management of the firm’s knowledge stocks to maximise the firm’s ability to exploit the knowledge it acquires. The model also highlights the importance of social capital to the ACAP process, in particular to the timely acquisition and assimilation of knowledge. This process model significantly enhances the understanding of how knowledge is leveraged through the ACAP process. There are important implications in these findings, amongst which there is evidence that social capital provides the firm with timely access to the knowledge, in particular the links of board members. In dynamic industry environments where there are constant technological advances and market opportunities are short-lived, the ability to assimilate and respond to opportunities and threats quickly is crucial to the firm’s competitive advantage. For the management of HTNVs, understanding how to optimise the use of their Boards of Directors, including venture capital representatives, in order to leverage their experience and connections, can significantly enhance the firm’s competitive advantage. Furthermore, exploiting the firm’s social capital in order to access and assimilate knowledge more effectively could have a significant impact on the growth of the firm. At policy level, it is imperative that small firms are encouraged to invest in the enablers of ACAP, to develop appropriate connections across the value chain that can assist their growth and, in particular, to ensure that they appoint to their Board Non-Executive Directors who are appropriate to the key challenges they are facing.
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Sedoglavich, Vesna. "Absorptive capacity and internationalization of New Zealand high-tech SMEs in the agro-technology sector." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2606.
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This study investigates the relationships between firm's technology, absorptive capacity and the internationalization process in the high-tech SMEs. The research identifies the most influential factors that affect the international activities and expansion decisions of New Zealand high-tech SMEs with core capabilities in agro-technology. Mixed methods, qualitative and quantitative elements in the data collection and analysis, were employed in this research for a reason that a deeper understanding of the research subject and the analysis of complex issues such as the internationalization process and absorptive capacity required methodological variety. The use of qualitative and quantitative methods took place in parallel. Both methods were used to study the same subject but they had specific objective related purposes and they offered the possibility of developing rich empirical data as well as a more comprehensive understanding of the subject under the study. The findings show that it is absorptive capacity that explains internationalization process, not internationalization process that explains absorptive capacity. The practice of internationalizing is as much a reflection of a firm's absorptive capacity as it is its determinant. The research identifies that high-tech SMEs possess technological and non-core absorptive capacity which in a different way influence firms' strategies. The research suggests that firm's technological capabilities and the advantage of specialized knowledge along with their limited non-core absorptive capacity act as constraints to the development of the future international strategy in high-tech SMEs. The study expands the existing literature on internationalization by developing variables for evaluating absorptive capacity in firms. This helped develop an absorptive capacity model which can be used as a valuable tool for self-assessment by firms to facilitate gaining insight towards further growth and development. The research suggested that if firms were able to measure its absorptive capacity this may result in improved business activities and enhanced presence in the world market. The results of this study should encourage firms to identify, capture and articulate knowledge achieved by their ventures. Managers must develop and nurture skills that ensure effective integration of learning as their firms expand, particularly internationally. These findings and absorptive capacity model offered as a tool should encourage managers to explore when, where, and how to best use firm's resources in the business operations. This is particularly important in regards to the research context (high-tech SMEs) where scientists are managers as well.
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Baik, Kyung Hwan. "Capacity, entry deterrence, and horizontal merger." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/54483.
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This dissertation examines the free-rider problem of entry deterrence, the profitability of a horizontal merger, and the effects of a horizontal merger on the outsiders’ profits and industry prices, in the markets where firms' capacity costs are sunk.
We investigate the free-rider problem of entry deterrence in the subgame perfect Nash equilibria of a three-stage game in which in the first stage multiple incumbent firms choose their capacities simultaneously and independently, in the second stage a potential entrant, after observing the incumbent firms’ capacity vector, chooses its capacity, and in the third stage the firms engage in capacity-constrained Cournot competition. We show that the free-rider problem may occur: there are situations where both entry prevention and allowing entry are equilibria but entry prevention is Pareto superior for the incumbent firms. We also show that increasing the number of incumbent firms may cause the equilibrium price to increase and thus consumer welfare to decrease. The free-rider problem is still manifested in a modified model in which multiple potential entrants choose their capacities sequentially after the first stage incumbents’ capacity decisions.
Several recent papers which theoretically analyze the profitability of a horizontal merger and its effects on the outsiders’ profits and industry prices, all observe that a merger never decreases industry prices, a merger to a monopoly is always profitable, and a merger never hurts the outsiders.
However, we demonstrate, in a market for a homogeneous product where firms with sunk capacities compete in quantities and there are potential entrants, that a merger can decrease industry price and a merger of incumbent firms to a monopoly may not be profitable. We also show, in a market for a homogeneous product where firms with sunk capacities engage in capacity-constrained price competition, that a merger can hurt the outsiders.Ph. D.
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Hashim, Rushanim. "Green innovation adoption in the construction sector : the role of absorptive capacity and the effect of environmental requirements." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33255.
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This study has investigated and attempted to enhance understanding of the role of absorptive capacity in influencing a firm to adopt green innovation. Absorptive capacity which has been argued by previous study as an important factor to facilitate the adoption of innovation, may require some degree of pressure from regulators and customers, to be exerted on particular firms, to influence them to become involved in green innovation. Therefore, this study has also attempted to evaluate the extent of the moderating effect of regulatory and customer requirements on the relationship between a firm's absorptive capacity and its adoption of green innovation. A research framework was developed and three research questions were posited. An electronic questionnaire survey was created and distributed to general building firms from the construction industry in Scotland. Subsequent semi-structured interviews were conducted with a subset of participants from the survey as well as with a number of construction industry experts, to investigate further the results of the survey. A total of 84 respondents participated in the survey, while 13 respondents contributed invaluable input from the interview sessions. The findings suggest that, on the whole, the level of green innovation adoption by most of the general building firms in Scotland can be considered as relatively low. Their engagement in green-related activities, however, was focusing more on the technical and process side, which was directly influenced by firms' high levels of existing knowledge and efforts to build new knowledge through employee training. The green administrative practices, on the other hand, had not really been given attention by the building firms as it is a voluntary-based act, which does not demonstrate tangible, financial benefit to them. The evidence from the study also shows that neither environmental requirements from regulators nor customers could encourage the building firms to adopt green practices even when they have high levels of absorptive capacity. The low levels of compliance as well as poor environmental demand from the customers indicate the number one concern within the industry, that is, cost, which hinders the building firms from becoming 'greener'. Additionally, this study provided insights and further understanding regarding knowledge-based factors that could facilitate the adoption of green innovation. This study has also made a methodological contribution by providing evidence and support for the use of mixed method approach to enhance understanding of the construction industry, which has tended to be the focus of quantitative studies. The findings of this study also have a number of implications, especially for policy makers, to explore into strategy and stringent regulations that could encourage more firms in the construction sector, which are operating in one of the industries that contributes most to environmental problems, to seek to reduce their impact on the natural environment. As the government takes a leadership role in this regard, participation from the other stakeholders within the industry is of importance to prompt a wider adoption of green practices. Here, architects, in particular, are in a potentially useful position to have a very strong influence in encouraging building firms to become involved in green practices. Besides, both individuals within the organisations (e.g. the top management and decision makers) and the society outside the organisations (e.g. customers and users of construction outputs) need to be educated to motivate them to make better environmental choices in order to contribute to environmental protection or sustainability.
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Irurzun, Lopez Maria Teresa. "Absorptive capacity to finance HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: Where are the bottlenecks?" Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9393.
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Includes bibliographical references.This research investigates absorptive capacity in South Africa's public health sector in relation to scaling up financing for HIV/AIDS treatment. The thesis constructs a conceptual framework, which follows the flow of public funding for HIV/AIDS treatment. The study combines a quantitative budget analysis, which looks at expenditure and spending patterns, with qualitative in-depth interviews with key stakeholders exploring causes and consequences, which are the main pillar of the primary research. The study applies the conceptual framework nationally, as well as in the Free State and Western Cape provinces. The contributions of the thesis are two-fold: At the conceptual level, the study defines and constructs an analytical framework of absorptive capacity and related bottlenecks in the context of funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in the public health sector. It identifies five major areas where bottlenecks may arise: financial, human, infrastructural, institutional (within the health system) and structural (outside the health system). At the empirical level, the study assesses and compares absorptive capacity and major bottlenecks encountered nationally and in the Free State and Western Cape provinces in respect of the public sector funding for the HIV/AIDS treatment programme. The results confirm that absorptive capacity is not merely about spending funding. Spending should not compromise other programs or elements of the public health system, and it should be efficient, equitable and sustainable. The findings show that South Africa's absorptive capacity was constrained by several obstacles, such as poor practices and a shortage of human resources, insufficient financial capacity and demanding requirements of conditional funding, inadequate infrastructure, and inadequate national leadership. To overcome these obstacles, the mere injection of even more funding would be an insufficient response. Consequently, the study indicates which other reforms are required, including: further integrating antiretroviral treatment services within the public health structures; further decentralising antiretroviral treatment towards primary health care; task shifting; iii balancing the conditional grant and equitable share; and enhancing coordination between the National and Provincial Departments of Health and with Treasury.
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Ahmad, Husairi Mariyani. "Imitative market entry strategies : the role of strategic orientation, resources, capabilities and absorptive capacity." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2014. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/73644/.
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Despite being more common than innovation, little is known about the strategies involved in imitative market entries and the capabilities enabling their executions. Drawing on the Resource-based View and Competitive Dynamics perspectives, the study examines the role of marketing capability, technological capability and absorptive capacity in aiding technological firms to engage in successful imitative market entries. The research also examines the relationship between strategic types and resources as well as the relationship between resources and capabilities. Finally, the research investigates the role of capabilities as determinants of entry timing, relative product advantage and relative price, which in turn influence product performance. The research provides important managerial and theoretical implications. First, the integration of the RBV and Competitive Dynamics perspectives provides a richer explanation of the heterogeneity in firms’ performance. Second, the findings show that firms’ strategic orientation determines the level of marketing and R&D resources. Third, the interaction between technological capability and marketing capability accelerates imitative market entry. Fourth, technological and marketing capabilities have a U-shaped relationship with market entry. Finally, the present study found marginal support for the prediction that entry timing, relative product advantage and relative price increase the likelihood of product survival. The U-shaped relationship observed between technological and marketing capabilities with market entry illustrate the double-edged sword nature of capabilities. Although strong technological and marketing capabilities facilitate firms’ swift entry into the market for some, for others they may cause them to be trapped in existing product, lock them in with existing customers and prevent them from being receptive to the new opportunities in the environment. Finally, because marketing and technological capability interaction is significantly related to earlier entry and earlier entry is associated with a higher product survival rate, managers considering an imitative market entry need to invest in the development of these two capabilities.
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Rezaei, Zadeh Mohammad. "Learning process analysis of absorptive capacity on organisational innovation : the influence of leadership styles." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11177.
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The research in this thesis investigates the learning processes of absorptive capacity (AC) as an element within organisation innovation. An analysis of leadership ‘styles’ is undertaken and factors for effective innovation adoption are considered. It is apparent that AC has been well researched in recent years but there is evidence that little attention has been given into important influences such as leadership. Consequently, AC is determined to involve managerial learning through three processes. These include: (1) exploratory learning as an ability to value and acquire external knowledge, (2) transformative learning to assimilate this knowledge, and (3) exploitative learning to use knowledge for innovation. However, there is little known about interventions of AC learning towards innovation and the effects of top and middle managers’ leadership styles on these processes. Therefore, the research initially attempts to investigate the relationship between AC, innovation, and leadership styles with a view to exploring valuable theoretical insights into the learning processes involved. A conceptual model is formulated which suggests a relationship between the learning processes of AC with different stages of innovation adoption. In this respect, the role of managers is investigated through attention to ‘transformational’ and ‘transactional’ leadership styles where the former changes employees’ values for achieving common goals and the latter encourages exiting practices. The methodology adopted involved a qualitative strategy with data collected through three substantive case studies from research sites in Iran. In total 31 Semi-structured interviews were conducted with respondents to explore the learning processes of AC and leadership styles on innovation. Secondary documents and non-participant observations provided further insights by triangulating the data. Data was analysed in two stages (i) a description of each case was reported (ii) a thematic analysis was used in order to compare the case companies collectively. The findings supported the effects of the learning processes of AC on innovation adoption. It was also found that the leadership behaviours of top and middle managers change from transformational to transactional leadership styles during the exploitative learning process. The influence of top managers’ knowledge, middle managers’ intention, and trust in middle managers also emerged as important constructs in the learning processes. The research contributed to the learning processes of AC and the influence of managerial leadership styles by adding new insights to organisational theory. The results will also be of value to practitioners by providing prescriptive analysis when using external knowledge effectively for adopting innovation.
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Eteokleous, Pantelitsa. "Absorptive capacity, advantage creation and performance outcomes : implications for a socially responsible supply chain." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.699232.
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Although Corporate Social Responsibility has been one of the most important concepts to emerge within the managerial enquiry, only recently has it gained ground within the supply chain management field. Despite notable contributions from the current literature, there is lack of understanding of how an advantageous position and beneficial outcomes from socially responsible initiatives are accrued to the supply chain and the firm. To address this gap, an integrative conceptual model is built and tested in this study, focusing on a SC competence, that of Socially Responsible Supply Chain (SRSC)- based absorptive capacity, driving SRSC-based advantage and consequently, firm performance growth. The conceptual model is grounded on the Resource-Based View and its derivations, the Natural Resource-Based View and Dynamic Capabilities Perspective, complemented by contingency theory. A cross-sectional survey design was employed and primary data were collected from 209 manufacturing companies in the US. The sample was selected from a list of managers, members of the Institute for Supply Management. The unit of analysis is the SC (i.e., supplier-manufacturer-distributor). Following measure validation procedures using confirmatory factor analysis and assessment of common method bias, the direct and moderating effects specified in the research hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings confmn that SRSC- based absorptive capacity leads to the creation of a SRSC-based advantage, positively moderated by competitive intensity and social public concern, and negatively moderated by regulatory forces. SRSC-based advantage as the mediating variable, leads to firm performance growth, a relationship negatively moderated by the manufacturer's socially responsible sourcing strategy, in contrast to the initial hypothesis. Results indicate a significant effect of supply chain scope and years of implementing SRSC practices (control variables), on SRSC-based advantage and firm performance growth, respectively. The study findings have important implications for theory development, management practice, academic scholarship and public-policy.
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Rochlitz, Michael. "Two essays on institutions and state in Russia and a study of absorptive capacity." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2013. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/106/1/Rochlitz_phdthesis.pdf.
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Chapter 1 presents a short introduction to Russia’s economy in 2013, showing that the country has become more dependent on natural resource exports during the last 15 years, despite attempts by the Russian state to diversify the economy. I then undertake a short comparison of industrial policy and institutions in Russia and China. I argue that two reasons why China has been more successful than Russia in implementing industrial policy and diversifying its economy is the country’s pro-growth incentive structure, and its focus on absorbing technology from abroad.
Chapter 2 studies the change in incentives faced by Russian regional governors, after gubernatorial elections were replaced by presidential appointments in 2004. Using an ordered probit model, the chapter examines how various measures of economic performance and political loyalty affect the probability of Russian regional governors to stay in office. While before the 2004 reform, the likelihood to stay in office seems not to depend on political loyalty to the centre, after the reform election results for the president and the Kremlin party play a strong and significant role in explaining the likelihood of regional governors to stay in office, while economic performance has a negative effect. I interpret these results as evidence that after the reform in 2004, the ruling elites in Moscow started using appointments of regional officials to consolidate their political control over the country, while performance-related criteria play only a secondary role.
Chapter 3 presents a novel dataset containing 312 cases of illegal corporate raiding (reiderstvo) that took place between 1999 and 2010 in Russia, assembled through a comprehensive scan of Russian national and regional newspaper archives. Analysing the dataset, I am able to identify a shift in both the regional and sectoral distribution of raiding cases over time, as well as an increasing involvement of state agencies in illegal raiding attacks. Using a fixed-effects panel model, I find that regional election results for the ruling president and his party, as well as the degree to which elections are manipulated throughout Russia’s regions, are significantly and positively correlated with the number of raiding cases in a given region. I also find that regions in which governors have stronger ties to their region suffer from a lower degree of attacks. A possible interpretation of these results is that under Russia’s new authoritarian electoral regime, the centre tolerates a certain amount of rent-seeking and predatory activities by regional elites, as long as these elites are able to provide a sufficiently high level of electoral support for the centre. I further argue that the results concerning the local attachment of regional governors can be seen as evidence confirming Mancur Olson’s theory on stationary and roving bandits.
Chapter 4 (written together with Letizia Montinari) investigates differences in and determinants of technical efficiency across three groups of OECD, Asian and Latin American countries. In the literature, the kind of technical efficiency we examine is seen as one of the main factors influencing the ability of a country to absorb technology from abroad. Using a stochastic frontier framework and data for 22 manufacturing sectors for 1996-2005, we find notable differences in technical efficiency between the three country groups we examine. We then investigate the effect of human capital and domestic R&D, proxied by the stock of patents, on technical efficiency. We find that while human capital has always a strongly positive effect on efficiency, an increase in the stock of patents has positive effects on efficiency in high-tech sectors, but negative effects in low-tech sectors.
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Bellio, Martina <1992>. "Open innovation ed Absorptive Capacity per lo sviluppo di nuove conoscenze nel settore automotive." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13288.
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I cambiamenti in atto nel settore automobilistico e l’emergenza di nuovi trend hanno reso necessaria una sostanziale riorganizzazione della sua catena di fornitura.
La convergenza tecnologica ha reso obsolete alcune conoscenze e competenze peculiari del settore automobilistico richiedendo alle imprese di sviluppare nuove conoscenze tipiche di altri settori come ad esempio l’IT; a tal fine, per accedere alle conoscenze rilevanti, risulta fondamentale per le imprese del settore automotive avviare processi di open innovation e di importazione delle conoscenze sfruttando le proprie capacità di assorbimento.
L’obiettivo dell’elaborato risulta essere quindi l’individuazione delle competenze rilevanti e delle modalità adottate dalle imprese per aumentare le proprie capacità di assorbimento attraverso l’instaurazione di relazioni inter-organizzative quali: licensing, joint venture, collaborazioni formali, collaborazioni di ricerca ecc.
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Shih, Chung-Tai, and 施仲泰. "Organizational Antecedents and Outcome of Absorptive Capacity." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66596582183299269808.
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碩士國立中央大學
企業管理研究所
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In the turbulence of business environment, organization innovation capability is the ma-jor source of competitive advantages. Therefore, firms increasingly rely on new external knowledge to enhance innovation ability. However, new external knowledge acquisition does not guarantee the results of innovation. This article follows the process-based definition of absorptive capacity, exploring how organizational mechanisms affect different dimensions absorptive capacity, and the relationship between different dimensions of absorptive capacity and innovation. The survey was conducted by high-technology equipment manufacturers’ employees involving new product development projects. The effective samples are 262, and used PLS (Partial Least Squares) for analysis. The results indicate that organizational mechanisms have different effects on organiza¬tional learning processes of absorptive capacity. The results indicate that organizational mechanisms associated with coordination capabilities (cross-functional interfaces, participation in decision making, and job rotation) primarily enhance exploratory learning capability and exploitative learning capability. Organizational mechanisms associated with system capability primarily enhance transformative learning capability. Organizational mechanisms associated with socialization capabilities primarily affect exploratory learning capability and transformative capability. In addition, the results show that exploratory, transformative, and exploitative learning has different effects on the types of innovation and their relationships of causality. The results emphasize the multidimensional nature of absorptive capacity and help to explain inter-firm discrepancies in profiting from external knowledge.
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Meng-ChuLee and 李孟竹. "Absorptive Capacity: The Performance of Taiwan’s Latecomers in China." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23093269063834184981.
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碩士國立成功大學
企業管理學系
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This thesis’ purpose is to find out if latecomer advantages can help Taiwanese latecomers’ performance in new emerge developing market, China, and also testing if absorptive capacity can reinforce the efficient of latecomer advantages. After developed several hypothesis from these two theories, this thesis sampled 83 firms form Taiwan Stock Exchange, collected five years data from TEJ and Marker Observation Post System and used Hausman test, Lagrange multiplier test, and multiple regression to analyze. This thesis separated firms into electronic and non-electronic industry to observe how latecomer advantages and absorptive capacity work. The result is positive in non-electronic industry, but in electronic industry, R＆D intensity is still a very important material.
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Lin, Wu-Shen, and 林武賢. "The Impact of Knowledge Absorptive Capacity on Community Performance." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54723320311931135174.
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碩士國立屏東商業技術學院
資訊管理系(所)
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Motivated by rising concerns on increasing living quality and community competence from community investments, this study applies the theoretical lens of absorptive capacities to community innovation. Adopting the concepts of absorptive capacity, this study proposes a framework for exploring community performance improvement embedded in the processes of community innovation. Success factors of community innovation such as communication, visiting, education, government-aided reform, alliance formulation, and community norm-creating are organized into two types of knowledge absorptive capacity – potential capacity and realization capacity. This study proposes that absorptive capacity is the critical determinant of community performance improvement from community innovation. Although the frequently mentioned factors communication and visiting are important activities for communities to assimilate the knowledge of the innovation processes, these represent potential capacity that requires realization through refinement and execution of what has been absorbed. Innovative communities wishing to continuously generate benefits need to build potential absorptive capacity by investing in visiting, training and education, and leverage realized capacity through carrying out the community norm-creating acts.
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Chien, Yi-ting, and 簡儀婷. "The Moderating Effect of Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Ambidexterity." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81742278993285019869.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
企業管理系
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This study focuses on absorptive capacity and learning orientation as critical factors affecting the effectiveness of innovation ambidexterity. Drawing upon a sample of 70 Taiwan electronics and information companies, the study presents arguments and formulates hypotheses concerning learning orientation initiates the self-reinforcing of learning which will have positive effect on the incremental product innovation than radical product innovation. We employ potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity play a role of reducing the self-reinforcing nature of learning that limitation in some superior fields. Results show that when firms focused on learning orientation, the interaction of potential absorptive capacity and realized absorptive capacity didn’t enhance radical product innovation and lead the firm achieves incremental product innovation. These results suggest that electronics and information companies need to continuously challenge old assumptions and promote the firm receive external knowledge proactively that can prevent the firm focus on some fields and suffer from competency trap.
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李慧君. "The influence of firm’s absorptive capacity on organizational performance." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/05151475014377820859.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
企業管理學系
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The article investigates the relationship between absorptive capacity and organizational performance. Based on resource-based theory and the view of market or environment state, we argue that the internal and external factors in organization may have impact on absorptive capacity and organizational performance. Therefore, not only we use learning oriented，organizational memory and knowledge integration mechanism as internal factors, but also we use market turbulent and competitive intensity as external factors. Data from 500 firms in technology industry which commonwealth magazine published top 1000 industrial firms in 2010. Results indicate firm’s absorptive capacity is the source of competitive advantages. Especially, when competitive intensity is high, potential absorptive capacity has positive impact on firm’s performance; however, realized absorptive capacity may be an obstruction to organizational performance. On the other hand, learning oriented，organizational memory and knowledge integration mechanism also Strengthen the positive effect between realized absorptive capacity and firm’s performance. Moreover, learning oriented and organizational memory may limit the activity which firms acquire external knowledge. Our findings reveal why some firms with diversified resources will make absorptive capacity result in different performance, and make the understanding of firm’s absorptive capacity can be investigated more complete.
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Lai, Yi-ying, and 賴怡螢. "The Individual And Organizational Antecedents of Individual Absorptive Capacity." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63878925281702542360.
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碩士國立中央大學
企業管理學系
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In the turbulence of environment, the company have the knowledge will be the company's most important core competencies, seeking new knowledge, as well as its applying on organization business objectives have become the pursuing target of the firms. How to improve individual acquirement new knowledge, assimilation and exploitation capability for innovation in the organizations becomes an important issue. Previous paper examines absorptive capacity that only focused on the tangible outcomes of absorptive capacity, organizational design and individual level antecedents have been relatively neglected in the absorptive capacity literature. This study is an empirical way to verify the theory. We examine individual antecedent, organizational antecedent and absorptive capacity. This research is mainly using empirical study for analyzing, and to discuss the hypotheses about how individual antecedent and organizational antecedent effects the individual absorptive capability while new product development project. Individual antecedent separate two parts: motivation to learn, professional capacity . Organizational antecedent separate two parts: organizational structure, innovation oriented. We use individual antecedent and organizational antecedent to find out influences on two phases of individual absorptive capacity.Our empirical analysis focus on Taiwan manufacturing industry and we send the questionnaires to the NPD team, totally we collected 256 questionnaires. Through the empirical result, Motivation to learn and knowledge depth and innovation oriented for potential absorptive capacity has significantly positive effects. Organizational structure and innovation oriented for realized absorptive capacity has significantly positive effects, but organizational structure for potential absorptive capacity not significant.After empirical study, we found the higher the individual motivation, knowledge depth and innovation oriented the higher potential absorptive capacity. Moreover, the higher the organization hierarchy and innovation oriented the higher realized absorptive capacity, furthermore aggressively positive effects the performance of new product development.
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Nguyen, Lan Phi. "Absorptive capacity, foreign direct investment and economic growth in Vietnam." 2008. http://arrow.unisa.edu.au:8081/1959.8/48856.
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This thesis examines the direct as well as indirect effect of foreign direct investment on Vietnam?s economy. Statistical analysis shows that a two-way linkage exists between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Vietnam. Furthermore, foreign direct investment spillovers generate strong positive impact on Vietnam?s total factor productivity through backward linkages.