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Showing 1 to 20 of 75 for “"Absorptive Capacity"”.
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Absorptive capacity of the firm
Absorptive capacity is a set of capabilities of the firm which enable it to recognise, acquire, assimilate and apply toward commercial purposes the technology and knowledge available in its external environment (Cohen and Levinthal (1990)). What are these capabilities? This thesis has three aims: …
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Architecting Absorptive Capacity: Systems Framework for Open Innovation in Japanese Enterprises
… innovation practices. The research focuses on absorptive capacity - defined as an organization's ability to recognize, assimilate, and utilize external knowledge - as a critical factor in successfully implementing outside-in open innovation. To address the gaps between academic research and …
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Investigating absorptive capacity in boards, corporate governance and the value creating board
… and exploited, which is conceptualised as absorptive capacity. Further, the concept of absorptive capacity has so to date not been researched in a board context. In this thesis board processes are studied by exploring the impact of absorptive capacity on board task performance. Three …
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Individual ambidexterity : a managerial perspective in relation to the dimensions of absorptive capacity
… of the influential factors of individual absorptive capacity regarding manager exploration and exploitation activities. Hypotheses are developed to test the dimensions of individual-level absorptive capacity and its associations with managers exploration and exploitation activities. Using …
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Absorptive capacity to finance HIV/AIDS treatment in South Africa: Where are the bottlenecks?
This research investigates absorptive capacity in South Africa's public health sector in relation to scaling up financing for HIV/AIDS treatment. The thesis constructs a conceptual framework, which follows the flow of public funding for HIV/AIDS treatment. The study combines a quantitative budget …
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Absorptive capacity and innovative performance frameworks for SMEs : case studies from manufacturers in Indonesia
… and innovative performance by building the absorptive capacity. Absorptive capacity is a firm's ability to acquire, assimilate, and transform new knowledge and valuable information to upgrade its core capabilities in response to the changing economic environment. It indicates a firm's …
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OPEC and oil production policy as affected by absorptive capacity: a case study of Iraq
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-395).
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Organising for Advertising Creativity: Differential Effects of Agency Structure, Absorptive Capacity, and Abrasion on Originality and Appropriateness
… shed light on a range of interactive, processing capacity, and knowledge elements, in the creative thinking process, rather than looking at divergent thinking processes in isolation. This thesis is made up of four articles in Chapter’s Two to Five. The first of these articles is a replication and …
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Alliance behaviour, absorptive capacity and competitive advantage: a comparative study of biopharmaceutical firms in Europe and the US
… this thesis, we explore the relationship between absorptive capacity and alliances, and their influence on firms’ competitive advantage in the US and European biopharmaceutical sectors. The study undertaken in this thesis is based on data from a large-scale international survey of over 2,500 …
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The Effect of Individual’s Technological Belief and Usage on their Absorptive Capacity towards their Learning Behaviour in the Learning Environment
… knowledge holder and recipient, and recipient’s Absorptive CAPacity (ACAP). Horizontal organizational structures appear to be an effective solution to causal ambiguity and relation between knowledge holder and recipient because they allow knowledge to flow across organisational silos. The …
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The Role of Firm Capability, Managerial Cognition, and Ecosystem on Innovation: Investigation of The Satellite Industry
… the nature and role of two firm capabilities: absorptive capacity (or external learning capability) and technological capability. I examine how firm capability interacts with intra-firm and industry factors, and how it impacts organizational outcomes. In the first paper, I review literature on …
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Knowledge exchange at York St John: Building capacity in a small university.
… This thesis demonstrates how the concept of absorptive capacity (Cohen & Levinthal 2000) was used to understand knowledge exchange capacity at York St John University; a learning and teaching organization with newly acquired University status and a key strategic aim associated with increasing …
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The determinants of international knowledge transfer effectiveness - conceptual advances and empirical verification
… with distinct teaching skills (eloquent capacity) perform significantly better at intra-organisational, cross-border knowledge transfers than other organisations. It is further illustrated that organisations with high levels of self-efficacy and low levels of partner differences develop …
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The Acquisition of Tacit Knowledge in International Outsourcing Relationships: The Malaysian Supplier Perspective
… this study attempts to analyze the effects of absorptive capacity and relational capital components on the Malaysian suppliers’ acquisition of tacit knowledge from their international outsourcing relationships. It also investigates the implications of the newly acquired tacit knowledge in …
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The Relationship Of Market Orientation, Absorptive Capaci-Ty, Organizational Learning, And Positional Advantage To Corporate Performance In Turbulent And Non-Turbulent Environments
… Outcomes by introducing the concept of Absorptive Capacity from the management literature. Though each is related to organizational learning, market orientation and absorptive ca-pacity have not been presented together in a structural model with organizational learning as a higher order …
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Acquiring and Exploiting Knowledge: The Two Faces of Diversification
… firms diversify after taking into account their absorptive capacity, then even after controlling for economies of scope, diversification would be associated with firm value. Thus diversification may enhance firm performance not only due to economies of scope, but also due to the new knowledge and …
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Knowledge Transfer, Organisational Learning, and the Performance of International Strategic Alliances : A Co-evolutionary Perspective
… This, in turn, weakens the recipient’s potential absorptive capacity and decreases the amount of knowledge acquired through international cooperation. Yet this research also discovers that relational capital accumulated by the partner firms along with cooperation could facilitate the cross-border …
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The organisation of supply in a tourism destination : An analysis of a networked community - the Waitomo Caves Village
… in sourcing strategic leverage for the network. Absorptive capacity, relational absorptive capacity, relational embeddedness and structural embeddedness were all demonstrated as important attributes of the network organising process. Finally, the data supported the significant role social …
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Expatriate Competencies as Antecedents of Knowledge Transfer and Their Impacts on Staff Localisation
… successful localisation, locals must have high absorptive capacity. Third, to enhance expatriate manager competences, the study has identified two essential sets of features to consider, the organisation characteristics and the knowledge characteristics. These findings thus provide several …
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