Impact of absorptive capability on software process improvement and firm performance

The effect of process tailoring on software project performance: The role of team absorptive capacity and its knowledge‐based enablers

“…Accordingly, a binary variable is used to represent whether the project development is based on an agile model (1) or on a sequential model (0) (Kang et al, 2017). Moreover, large firms may possess high‐level software engineering competence (Lee et al, 2018), which may influence project performance (Cui, Wu, & Tong, 2018). Thus, firm size was controlled for and measured by the natural logarithm of the number of employees.…”

“…Thus, firm size was controlled for and measured by the natural logarithm of the number of employees. Different industry sectors (using industry dummies) may have distinct levels of software development capabilities (Lee et al, 2018) and thus may affect project performance (Cui et al, 2018).…”

“…Note that team AC does not reside in any single individual but depends on a mosaic of collective capabilities that are dynamically held by the team (Roberts et al, 2012;Tiwana & Mclean, 2005). Therefore, AC does not refer to a static team learning process but, rather, the extent to which that process can be sufficiently flexible to cope with dynamic project requirements and environments (Lee, Chen, & Shiue, 2017;Lee, Hsu, & Chen, 2018).…”

“…In sum, this study assumes that the aforementioned work of AC can be recognised and serve as a useful knowledge process for software teams in SPT operations. With this assumption, AC appears to enable the flow of the absorption and creation of the knowledge required and to facilitate "the reconfiguration of the team's knowledge stock" (Lee et al, 2017(Lee et al, , 2018 for the continual operation of SPT, resulting in a more efficient SPT process. Thus, we hypothesise the following:…”

“…Note that team AC does not reside in any single individual but depends on a mosaic of collective capabilities that are dynamically held by the team (Roberts et al, 2012; Tiwana & Mclean, 2005). Therefore, AC does not refer to a static team learning process but, rather, the extent to which that process can be sufficiently flexible to cope with dynamic project requirements and environments (Lee, Chen, & Shiue, 2017; Lee, Hsu, & Chen, 2018). Therefore, in the SPT context, we adopt AC as a team's knowledge‐based dynamic capability to address how the performance of SPT can be enhanced by a team's AC as well as to determine the factors that could increase team AC.…”