ADOPTION OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY ROUTINES AND TECHNOLOGICAL
Absorptive Capacity and ICT Adoption Strategies for SMEs: a Case Study in Kenya
... meanings within specific social contexts. Multiple case study design has been adopted for this study in order to produce a richer understanding of the phenomenon under study (Yin, 2009). The SMEs that were recruited to ...
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Moderating role of absorptive capacity between entrepreneurial orientation and technological innovation capabilities
... toward technological innovation capabilities (TIC) among industrial SMEs by decreasing the potential stumbling blocks of technological innovation adoption, highlights the role of EO and external ...
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Building blocks of country-level absorptive capacity
... the adoption and implementation of new technologies exogenously (Nelson and Phelps 1966; Romer 1990) and/or facilitating the domestic production of technological innovations (Aghion and Howitt, 1998; Romer, ...
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Building a Conceptual Model of Routines, Capabilities, and Absorptive Capacity Interplay
... of routines is important for organizational learning, as well as for organizational efficiency ...of routines does de- velop into a ...words, routines may lead to inertia (Becker, ...firm ...
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The Role of Technological Complexity and Absorptive Capacity in Internalization Decision
... complex technological products within the basic stage of production can also be rationalized by the fact that these products require specialized skills and knowledge which can be offered by only a broad network of ...
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Absorptive capacity in technological learning in clean development mechanism projects
... advanced technological competences building, however this was not proved in our ...of absorptive capacity draw on learning in innovative activities ...
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Making Technological Knowledge Work : A Study of the Absorptive Capacity of Irish SMEs
... 2.2.1 Human capital Conventionally, numbers of qualified scientists and engineers in firms are seen as the proxy measure of absorptive capacity. Narula argues that the core of absorptive ...
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A novel approch to national technological accumulation and absorptive capacity : aggregating Cohan and Levinthal
... and absorptive capabilities by applying the reasoning and evidence from the firm-level analysis pioneered by Cohen and Levinthal (1989, ...national absorptive capacity and the technological ...
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2. Absorptive Capacity
... Before an innovation is actually implemented, a firm has to generate ideas and develop plans. Rogers (2003) refers to this process as the initiation stage, defined as all the information gathering, conceptualization, and ...
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The Innovation and Imitation Dichotomy in Spanish firms: do absorptive capacity and the technological frontier matter?
... With regard to the matrix of determining factors associated with the firm’s characteristics, it is worth highlighting the fact that the size of the firm is directly related to its propensity to innovate. These results ...
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The mediating role of market orientation on entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity and technological innovation capabilities
... orientation, Absorptive capacity on technological innovation capabilities and examine the mediating role of MO on these relations within the industrial SMEs in Kurdistan region northern of Iraq as ...
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The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity in Its Effect on Organizational Support Factors and Technological Innovation
... 28 Absorptive Capacity: The focus on external knowledge transfer received considerable interest among researchers since about 50 years ago (Sparrow et ...“absorptive capacity” (Flatten et ...
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Absorptive capacity: a process perspective
... to absorptive capacity, we add specifi c insights to the role of organizational ...the adoption and utilization of external ...sorptive capacity is not just a matter of osmosis: it depends on ...
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Absorptive capacity and smart companies
... of absorptive capacity that had been proposed four years ...the absorptive capacity: the capacity to ...in absorptive capacity allows organizations to more effectively ...
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Non-linearity and Absorptive Capacity
... firms’ absorptive capacity is crucial for realizing technology ...embodied technological change argument by Stoneman (1983)) and ...in absorptive capacity we first divide industries ...
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Entrepreneurial orientation, absorptive capacity, market orientation and technological innovation capabalities of SMEs in Kurdistan, Iraq
... embrace technological and manufacturing innovations and modern management methods, in addition to their orientation towards production specialization in various ...
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Antecedents of absorptive capacity in knowledge-transfer projects: What affects the absorptive capacity of the recipient project team?
... On the other hand, once critical knowledge was transferred from the sender, precise planning helped the project team adapt it efficiently to extant routines and structures. Planning made it easier for team members ...
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Optimal Cognitive Distance and Absorptive Capacity
... capacity as decreasing, and novelty value as increasing, with increasing cognitive distance. In other words, an increase in cognitive distance creates both a problem and an opportunity. This is in contrast with ...
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Absorptive capacity and mass customization capability
... 26 exploiting knowledge. Collaborating with partners with high levels of AC could help western companies to customize products designed in the west for the mass market in China. While this study makes significant ...
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the role of technology spillovers and absorptive capacity
... In light of beneficial effect of technological spillovers, countries try to attract FDI as much as they can so as to improve productivity of domestic firms. They hope that when multinational companies carrying new ...
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