Unpacking Absorptive Capacity: A Study of Knowledge Utilization from Alliance Portfolios

Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Anand, Jaideep

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“…Katila and Chen 2008). However, prior studies have shown that learning from firms that are technologically distant is especially challenging from a cognitive standpoint (Rosenkopf and Nerkar 2001, Benner and Tushman 2002, Vasudeva and Anand 2011. As March (1991: 85) explains, inter-organizational learning that is technologically proximate…”

Section: Activating Institutional Logics For Inter-organizational Leamentioning

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Institutional Logics and Interorganizational Learning in Technological Arenas: Evidence from Standard-Setting Organizations in the Mobile Handset Industry

Vasudeva

Alexander

Jones

2015

Organization Science

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Institutional logics and inter-organizational learning in technological arenas: Evidence from standard setting organizations in the mobile handset industry. Organization Science, 26 (3). pp. 830-846. ISSN 1047-7039 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/25399We recommend you cite the published version. The publisher's URL is: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.0940Refereed: No (no note) Disclaimer UWE has obtained warranties from all depositors as to their title in the material deposited and as to their right to deposit such material. UWE makes no representation or warranties of commercial utility, title, or fitness for a particular purpose or any other warranty, express or implied in respect of any material deposited. UWE makes no representation that the use of the materials will not infringe any patent, copyright, trademark or other property or proprietary rights. UWE accepts no liability for any infringement of intellectual property rights in any material deposited but will remove such material from public view pending investigation in the event of an allegation of any such infringement. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the three anonymous reviewers and Senior Editor William Ocasio for providing us with excellent guidance throughout the review process. We greatly benefited from the feedback provided by the seminar participants at the University of Minnesota, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Ohio State University and the University of Alberta. We are indebted to our interviewees from various telecommunications standard setting organizations for sharing their valuable insights with us. Timothy Simcoe, Andrew Van de Ven, Joel Waldfogel and Akbar Zaheer provided helpful comments. All errors remain our own. PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR TEXT. 2 AbstractConceptualizing standard setting organizations (SSOs) as technological arenas within which firms from different countries interact and learn, we offer insights into the interplay between firms' institutional logics and their inter-organizational learning outcomes. We suggest that firms' inter-organizational learning is embedded in their macro-level country contexts, characterized by more corporatist versus less corporatist (pluralist) institutional logics. Whereas corporatism spurs coordinated approaches, pluralism engenders competitive interactions that affect the extent to which firms span organizational and technological boundaries and learn from each other. We test our theory using longitudinal analysis of 181 dyads involving 26 firms participating in 17 SSOs in the global mobile handset industry. We find that inter-organizational learning, measured by patent citations, involving corporatist firm dyads significantly increases when the dominant logic within the arena is also corporatist. By making cooperative schemas more accessible a dominant corporatist logic also enhances inter-organizational learning across technologically distant dyads. When a pluralist logic dominates the arena, corporatist dyads learn less because firms in the...

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Section: Activating Institutional Logics For Inter-organizational Leamentioning

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Institutional Logics and Interorganizational Learning in Technological Arenas: Evidence from Standard-Setting Organizations in the Mobile Handset Industry

Vasudeva

Alexander

Jones

2015

Organization Science

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“…Although previous studies have extended the concept originally introduced by Cohen and Levinthal (1990) to reflect a new notion of absorptive capacity in the organizational field, no clear definition of absorptive capacity with regard to different features of knowledge has appeared (Vasudeva & Anand, 2011). Even though Zahra, Larraneta, and Galán (2015) introduced the concepts of breadth and depth of absorptive capacity and based on different features of knowledge, they did not explore the factors that influence the formation of breadth and depth of absorptive capacity.…”

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“…They also propose the concept of 'longitudinal absorptive capacity,' which refers to a firm's capacity to use unfamiliar or unrelated -that is, 'distant' -technological knowledge. The research of Vasudeva and Anand (2011) provides insight into the relationship between features of knowledge and absorptive capacity, but does not clarify how these features of absorptive capacity are created. In this study, we focus on two features of knowledge -breadth and depth of knowledge.…”

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“…Among the above-mentioned studies, Vasudeva and Anand (2011) discuss features of knowledge in their study of absorptive capacity. The authors conceptualize the learning component that allows a firm to utilize scope, breadth, and diversity in knowledge as 'latitudinal absorptive capacity.'…”

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“…'Longitudinal absorptive capacity' is the firm's capacity to use unfamiliar or unrelated technological knowledge Vasudeva and Anand (2011) Knowledge features Breadth of absorptive capacity refers to the extent to which the knowledge contained in the firm's absorptive capacity is multifaceted and comprehensive in its coverage of a multitude of fields. Depth of absorptive capacity refers to the extent to which the firm has developed expert-type mastery of a particular technological domain Zahra, Larraneta, and Galán (2015) a firm establishes diverse interfirm ties in the course of its business activities (Koka & Prescott, 2002).…”

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2017

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Although previous studies have considered the antecedents and outcomes of absorptive capacity, much remains to be learned on this subject. Firms need to absorb breadth and depth of knowledge and form absorptive capacities that are contingent on various social capitals to improve innovation and performance. The purpose of this study is to explore the antecedents and outcomes of the breadth and depth of absorptive capacity from the perspective of social capital theory. Based on a sample of 218 Chinese firms, empirical results suggest that weak tie sources and knowledge breadth can enhance the breadth of absorptive capacity, and that strong tie sources and knowledge depth can strengthen the depth of absorptive capacity. The results also suggest that the breadth of absorptive capacity positively impacts the depth of absorptive capacity, and that both breadth and depth of absorptive capacity are positively related to innovation performance.

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Unpacking Absorptive Capacity: A Study of Knowledge Utilization from Alliance Portfolios

Cited by 271 publications

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Institutional Logics and Interorganizational Learning in Technological Arenas: Evidence from Standard-Setting Organizations in the Mobile Handset Industry

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