The relationship between R&amp;D, the absorptive capacity of knowledge, human resource flexibility and innovation: Mediator effects on industrial firms

Sánchez, Angel Martı́nez; Oliva, Silvia Vicente; Pérez‐Pérez, Manuela

doi:10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.07.014

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“…If farmers have a strong learning capacity, it will help to promote farmers' continuous learning, and help them to fully understand and apply the obtained cleaner production technology, so as to improve production efficiency. We measure the learning capacity of the interviewees through the following four items [61][62][63]: "Do you often discover new technologies earlier than others around you?" (LC1); "Do you often quickly know the characteristics and functions of the new technology?"…”

Section: Learning Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Rural Population Aging on Farmers’ Cleaner Production Behavior: Evidence from Five Provinces of the North China Plain

Liu

2021

Sustainability

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The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of rural population aging on farmers’ cleaner production behavior through the intervening effects of three aspects (learning capacity, factor substitution and behavior imitation). The data used in this article were collected from a questionnaire survey of 916 farmers in the main grain producing provinces of the North China Plain. First, confirmatory factor analysis was carried out, and then data were analyzed through structural equation modeling using the bootstrap methodology in AMOS 24. The findings indicate that rural population aging inhibits farmers’ cleaner production behavior through learning capacity. In contrast, rural population aging promotes farmers’ cleaner production behavior through factor substitution and behavior imitation. From the perspective of both challenges and opportunities, this article investigates the impact mechanism and comprehensive effect of rural population aging on farmers’ cleaner production behavior, so as to explore new ways to promote cleaner agricultural production under the background of an accelerated aging the of rural labor force and provide reference for the formulation of relevant policies.

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Section: Learning Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Learning capacity reflects farmers' ability to acquire, understand and apply cleaner production technology. Therefore, the higher the learning capacity, the less difficult it is for farmers to understand and internalize cleaner production technology, which is helpful for farmers to participate in cleaner production [61,63].…”

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The Impact of Rural Population Aging on Farmers’ Cleaner Production Behavior: Evidence from Five Provinces of the North China Plain

Liu

2021

Sustainability

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“…Accordingly, this provides a nurturing space for SMEs to cultivate their absorptive capacity by rebuilding their knowledge system (Mahmood & Mubarik, 2020;Moilanen et al, 2014). Alliance learning also facilitates the smooth process of combining internal and external knowledge to make them compatible and generate and cultivate absorptive capacity in SMEs (Martínez-Sánchez et al, 2020).…”

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Responsible innovation in emerging markets’ SMEs: The role of alliance learning and absorptive capacity

Zahoor

Khan

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Asia Pac J Manag

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This paper presents an examination of the role played by alliance learning in enabling emerging market small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop responsible innovation. SMEs based in emerging markets face significant challenges due to their weak resource base and the limited support they receive from formal institutions. In such a context, we argued that alliance learning takes a more prominent role in enabling these firms to develop responsible innovation via their absorptive capacity and sense-making competency. Drawn from 176 survey responses from SMEs originating from Pakistan, our findings shed light on the vital role played by alliance learning in enhancing SMEs’ responsible innovation. Specifically, the findings indicate that absorptive capacity acts as an important mechanism between alliance learning and responsible innovation. In addition, sense-making competency emerges as an important boundary condition and as a vital dynamic capability under which the effects of alliance learning on responsible innovation are stronger through the mediating mechanisms of absorptive capacity. These moderating-mediating findings contribute to the literature on dynamic capabilities and responsible innovation and provide important insights into the mechanisms and boundary conditions of responsible innovation in the context of emerging Asian markets.

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“…Moreover, while pre‐existing knowledge stock contributes to better absorption of external knowledge, firms can directly invest in absorptive capacity by providing advanced technical training to their employees (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990). As training facilitates the conversion of the accumulated technological knowledge into absorptive capacity, it enables employees to more efficiently combine external knowledge with internal knowledge (Martínez‐Sánchez et al, 2020).…”

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R&D employee training, the stock of technological knowledge, and R&D productivity

Kim

Lee

2021

R & D Management

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This paper investigates the conditioning role of R&D employee training in the effect of the stock of technological knowledge on firm R&D productivity. We suggest that the development of R&D human capital through training enhances firm-specific technological competence, thereby enabling firms to better utilize their stock of technological knowledge as a source of technological opportunities. Specifically, while a trap of path dependency may hamper the proper utilization of the firm-specific stock of technological knowledge, R&D employee training reinforces the standing-on-the-shoulders effect of the stock of technological knowledge, thereby offsetting, at least partially, its fishing-out effect due to depleting technological opportunities. Using panel data of Korean manufacturing firms, we show that R&D employee training positively moderates the effect of the stock of technological knowledge on firm R&D productivity. Furthermore, we suggest several factors that influence the positive moderating effect of R&D employee training such as the degree of knowledge sharing among R&D employees within each firm, the strength of industry R&D appropriability, and the industry R&D intensity.

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The relationship between R&D, the absorptive capacity of knowledge, human resource flexibility and innovation: Mediator effects on industrial firms

Cited by 49 publications

References 57 publications

The Impact of Rural Population Aging on Farmers’ Cleaner Production Behavior: Evidence from Five Provinces of the North China Plain

The Impact of Rural Population Aging on Farmers’ Cleaner Production Behavior: Evidence from Five Provinces of the North China Plain

Responsible innovation in emerging markets’ SMEs: The role of alliance learning and absorptive capacity

R&D employee training, the stock of technological knowledge, and R&D productivity

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