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... Knowledge transfer and management in tourism organisations: An emerging research agenda. The geographies of social networks and innovation in tourism[r] ... See full document

... c (high innovative capability). East Asian countries (China, India, Singapore, Phillipines, Bangladesh, Malaysia), along with some European countries (Greece, Ireland) base their growth mainly on the absorptive ... See full document

... Exploring the antecedents of potential absorptive capacity and its impact on innovation performance. Micro-foundations for strategy: A goal-framing perspective on the drivers of value c[r] ... See full document

... that organisations with lower centralisation, formalisation and vertical differentiation are more likely to innovate, whereas others found that such firms will have difficulty reaching consensus about adopting ... See full document

... In terms of Figure 1, there appear to be no signs of vertical movements of the firms between quadrants, whereas there is some clear evidence on initially no-collaboration firms moving horizontally towards the ... See full document

... ‘construction organisations have been managing knowledge informally for years, but the challenges facing today’s industry mean that most organisations now need a more structured, coher- ent approach to ... See full document

... In the past few decades, the focus of the research has been partially shifted toward some specific internal aspects of firms, such as routines (Nelson & Winter, 1982; Cohen et al., 1996; Zollo & Winter, 2002; ... See full document

... the capacity to acquire and exploit external knowledge – that is, absorptive capacity (AC; Cohen & Levinthal, 1990) – is crucial for firms to innovate, renew their competitive advantage, and ... See full document

... The involvement of companies in clusters offers a range of potential benefits that could positively affect their innovative capacity (Porter, 2000). The location near a variety of players, such as the world of ... See full document

... achievable. Tourism is expected to trigger and mobilize public economic growth, national for- eign-exchange income, to create job opportunities, and to improve public wel- ...fare. Tourism is also an ... See full document

... traditional tourism sector and traditional volunteering since the vol- unteers are required to pay substantial sums to ...mass tourism package, volunteers make arrangements for their travel separately from ... See full document

... However, one should not forget that the COVID-19 is not the Black Death Plague. Most people would never contract the coronavirus at all and of those who would, the majority would feel fine and recover from it quickly. ... See full document

... an absorptive capacity lens, the goal of this paper is to present a framework for understanding how introducing complex and rigorous topics can increase students’ absorptive capacity, and in ... See full document

... technology absorptive capacity needs constant investments, otherwise the ability of a technological company to acquire knowledge and learn from it will ...for absorptive capacity, relevant ... See full document

... As shown in Table 2, majority of the respondents surveyed were male. This unfair balance in gender is also evident in Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN) and National Bureau of Statics ... See full document

... The use of the AC concept in various fields reflects its multidisciplinary application but also makes it hard to establish unified criteria for its conceptualization and measurement. Therefore, identifying a measure of ... See full document

... of Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Sharing on the performance of women- owned SMEs ...that Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Sharing variable had positive and significant influence on ... See full document

... The AC concept, if not the wording, goes back a very long way. Indeed the concept seems to go back to Dr Samuel Johnson who, according to his biographer, James Boswell (1946 [1791]: p. 227) stated that: “…a man must ... See full document

... Exports * AC2 Imports * AC Imports * AC2 Services intensity Agriculture High and medium-high tech manufacturing Constant Observations Number of countries Sargan test p-value AR 1 AR 2.[r] ... See full document

... of absorptive capacity on innovation ...firm’s absorptive capacity, as stated H1 and ...potential absorptive capacity, measurable as technological vigilance in this research, is ... See full document