Absorptive capacity, organizational antecedents, and environmental dynamism

The emergence of absorptive capacity through micro–macro level interactions

“…The "linking" processes are embedded in combinative capabilities of the firm (Kogut & Zander, 1992). Coordination, systems and socialization capabilities enable firms and their business units to synthesize and apply the newly acquired knowledge (Jansen, Van Den Bosch, & Volberda, 2005;Roberts, 2015). As Lane et al (2006) observed later, these organizational antecedents determine how efficiently and effectively individuals acquire and use new external knowledge to commercial ends.…”

“…4, arrow 1). Communication and information systems (Roberts, 2015) may also facilitate individual attempts to apply their technical knowledge to commercial ends since they increase an awareness of where relevant marketing (or other complementary) knowledge resides in a focal firm (Lenox & King, 2004). However, it is not the individuals but rather combinations and re-combinations of their complementary knowledge across R&D, design, manufacturing and marketing functions that determine the extent, scope and speed of knowledge exploitation in the firm.…”

“…Firm managers are routinely concerned about how to achieve the best "fit" between individual absorptive capacities and the firm's external environment for new knowledge (Lewin, Massini, & Peeters, 2011;Van Den Bosch et al, 1999). Organizational form and governance mechanisms influence how employees interact with the external environment, how they communicate and integrate new knowledge within and across subunits, and what types of innovations they bring onto the market (Lane et al, 2001;Roberts, 2015;Van Den Bosch et al, 1999).…”

Social Media and Absorptive Capacity of Greek Government Agencies

“…Recently [15] investigated the use of franchisors' ICT infrastructure by franchisees as a learning mechanism, and concluded that it affects positively the effectiveness of knowledge transfer from the franchisors to the franchisees, the ACAP of the latter, and finally their financial performance. Also, [34] examines the effects of an ICT related variable, the data integration (defined as the provision to firm's employees of the capability of integrated access to customers, partners, industry and market data), and an organizational variable, the connectedness (defined as culture of communication and exchange of knowledge among employees across functional units and hierarchical levels), on ACAP; he concludes that both variables affect ACAP positively.…”

Business Coevolution: Considerations from the Mobile Telecommunication Sector in Latin America Economy

“…However, in some cases companies competing in turbulent environments besides surviving abrupt conditions, and discontinuous changes in the environment, but also get outstanding performance than those companies operating in environments with little turbulence performance (Drucker, 1980;Cameron, 1984;Rivera, 2010;Roberts, 2015;Stieglitz, Knudsen & Becker, 2016;Pontikes & Barnett, 2016). This situation leads to a central question for this research.…”