Building up Dynamic Capabilities for the Digital Age

Intrapreneurship and absorptive capacities: The dynamic effect of labor mobility

“…The focus of our paper is to investigate the dependency of a firm's absorptive capacity on the labor stock and labor mobility as well as selected contextual factors. Because digitization is transforming the contemporary business environment (Freitag & Brettel, 2017), especially within high-tech industries, we rely on a dataset consisting of 450 knowledge intensive publicly listed and traded firms which have their core business activities in Germany. We measure firms' absorptive capacities by using annual R&D spending per sales, following the seminal work by Griffith et al (2004), who empirically confirmed the link between research and development, technology transfer and absorptive capacities.…”