Addressing dual embeddedness: The roles of absorptive capacity and appropriability mechanisms in subsidiary performance

Cenamor, Javier; Parida, Vinit; Oghazi, Pejvak; Pesämaa, Ossi; Wincent, Joakim

doi:10.1016/j.indmarman.2017.06.002

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“…Second, our research contributes to the resourcing view of organizational change by highlighting the path through which transformation and exploitation capability facilitate process innovation practices, which in turn can lead to organizational change. Organizational change is a complex and systematic process (Battilana and Casciaro, ) and its success is often based on how newly assimilated knowledge and resources are retained and applied through organizational practices (resourcing) (e.g., Feldman, ; Cenamor et al, ; Wiedner et al, ). Our research helps to deepen our understanding of this idea by providing a rationale along with evidence for the significant path relationship: RACAP–process innovation practices–organizational change.…”

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“…This finding is particularly relevant for organizations (e.g., entrepreneurial universities) located in transitional economies given that they often lack a sufficient knowledge base (Zhou and Li, ). The ability to transform external knowledge may help the organization to restructure its internal knowledge base (e.g., Cenamor et al, ), while the ability to exploit knowledge leads to new uses of the existing knowledge base (e.g., Zahra and George, ; Lane et al, ). Both new structure and new use of knowledge bases are critical for process innovation practices in organizations from developing and transitional economies.…”

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“…More complex questions awaiting for future research include: what specific mechanisms necessitated by different organizational capabilities develop optimal resource recombination and reconfiguration to shape organizational change? How does organizational change vary among the employment of different resource configurations relating to innovation practices, strategic flexibility and appropriability mechanisms (Cenamor et al, ).…”

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“…Following prior studies (e.g., Cohen and Levinthal, ; Zahra and George ; Cenamor et al, ), transformation capability was measured by four items ( α = 0.69) while exploitation capability was measured by three items ( α = 0.69) (see Table for the scale). To ensure that respondents could understand the concepts accurately, we provided detailed definitions and explanations about key constructs in the questionnaire.…”

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Realized absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial universities’ organizational change: the role of process innovation practices

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Although essential to all institutions, organizational change is a complex and high risk activity. In this paper, we examine how organizations develop and implement capabilities to facilitate organizational change. Drawing on the dynamic capability perspective and a 'resourcing' synergy view, we investigate how realized absorptive capacity in terms of transformation and exploitation capability directly affects organizational change, and how process innovation practices act as an effective mechanism that link transformation and exploitation capability with organizational change. To distinguish our analysis, we focus on both an emerging organizational form and an emerging economy context. Specifically, on the basis of a questionnaire survey of 316 academics from entrepreneurial universities in Malaysia, we find that both transformation and exploitation capability are facilitators of organizational change. However, the relationship of transformation capability with organizational change is fully mediated by process innovation practices, while the relationship between exploitation capability and organizational change is partially mediated by process innovation practices. Our research therefore contributes to the dynamic capability perspective of organizational change and absorptive capacity by highlighting the importance of integrating organizational transformation and exploitation capability with process innovation practices in different ways to facilitate organizational change. Our findings and accompanying discussion on how process innovation practices can generate moves towards universities that are more entrepreneurial will also be of interest to university managers and policy makers.

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“…Esses efeitos também dependem da capacidade das empresas nacionais de absorver, internalizar e atualizar seus ativos de conhecimento. Cenamor (2017), com uma amostra de 165 subsidiárias, sugere que a capacidade de absorção tem um efeito direto e positivo sobre o desempenho subsidiário, que é maior nos países emergentes. O estudo também encontrou um efeito indireto da capacidade de absorção no desempenho subsidiário, que é mediado por mecanismos de apropriação.…”

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A complexidade do processo de inovação e o papel dos fornecedores de conhecimento especializado: análise de microdados da indústria argentina

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2018

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RESUMO: O objetivo deste trabalho é investigar o processo de escolha da firma entre fontes externas de informação, especificamente, entre universidades e consultores privados, utilizando para isto os microdados da ENDEI (Argentina). Os resultados encontrados nos permitem afirmar que as universidades e instituições públicas de C&T têm funções distintas dos consultores privados. Por um lado, a existência de motivos complexos, aqui chamados de "hard", aumenta a probabilidade da ocorrência de vínculos entre a indústria e as universidades. Por outro lado, os motivos considerados menos complexos relacionados às inovações incrementais, "soft", aumentam a probabilidade da ocorrência de vínculo com consultores. Estes resultados estão em linha com grande parte da literatura revistada e parece estar em sintonia com o contexto histórico-institucional do SNI da Argentina. Palavras-chave: inovação aberta, universidades, consultores, microdados, indústria Argentina.

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Exploring the effect of buyer engagement on green product innovation: Empirical evidence from manufacturers

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In this study, we are interested in how export firms organize knowledge management and increase product innovation performance. Prior studies have concluded that knowledge transfer from external actors leads to operational performance outcomes; others have questioned the positive influence of buyer‐driven knowledge transfer activities on innovation performance. Drawing on absorptive capacity, we aim to offer a better understanding, how export firms as recipients of knowledge resources, organize their internal capabilities in order to realize firm‐level product innovation. This empirical study examines the interplay of buyer‐driven knowledge activities, resource acquisition and combining, and product innovation outcomes in the context of Pakistani export firms. Drawing on survey data from 239 export‐manufacturing firms, we test hypotheses using structural equation modeling. Our findings show that buyer‐driven knowledge transfer activities play a crucial role in enhancing export firms in absorbing and combining resources that lead to product innovation. The pragmatic suggestion of the research suggests that managers look closely at developing a culture of involvement with their buyers that promotes the development of knowledge resources. The results of this study have research, policy, and managerial implications.

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Addressing dual embeddedness: The roles of absorptive capacity and appropriability mechanisms in subsidiary performance

Cited by 35 publications

References 93 publications

Realized absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial universities’ organizational change: the role of process innovation practices

Realized absorptive capacity and entrepreneurial universities’ organizational change: the role of process innovation practices

A complexidade do processo de inovação e o papel dos fornecedores de conhecimento especializado: análise de microdados da indústria argentina

Exploring the effect of buyer engagement on green product innovation: Empirical evidence from manufacturers

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