Learning how to restructure: absorptive capacity and improvisational views of restructuring actions and performance

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald D. Bergh ◽  
Elizabeth Ngah-Kiing Lim
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
And Performance

INNOVATION CAPABILITY, ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND SMES PERFORMANCE IN PAKISTAN: THE MODERATING EFFECT OF BUSINESS STRATEGY

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (Number 2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zulqarnain Arshad ◽  
Darwina Arshad
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
And Performance ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Crucial Part

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial part in county’s economic growth and a key contributor in country’s GDP. In Pakistan SMEs hold about 90 percent of the total businesses. The performance of SMEs depends upon many factors. The main aim for the research is to examine the relationship between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and Performance of SMEs in Pakistan. This conceptual paper also extends to the vague revelation on Business Strategy in which act as a moderator between Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and SMEs Performance. Conclusively, this study proposes a new research directions and hypotheses development to examine the relationship among the variables in Pakistan’s SMEs context.

Innovation and Driven Knowledge Management

2011 ◽  
pp. 392-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eng K. Chew ◽  
Petter Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Asset Management ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
It Managers ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
And Performance

As described in Chapter X, fundamental to the company’s innovation capabilities is the level of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities available to support the innovation process. The ability of an organization to identify, acquire, and utilize external knowledge, known as knowledge absorption, can be critical to the firm’s operational success (Adams, Bessant, & Phelps, 2006). A survey by Adams et al. (2006) shows that three areas of knowledge management are critical for innovation management: idea generation, knowledge repository (including the management of tacit and explicit knowledge), and information flows (including information gathering and networking). Further they note that several researchers have found that the firm’s ability to “absorb and put to use new knowledge,” known as knowledge “absorptive capacity,” has direct impact on the firm’s innovation and performance (Chen, 2004; Tsai, 2001). Popadiuk and Choo (2006) have further shown that innovation and knowledge creation are related. Innovation is a result of knowledge creation. Innovation is related to the firm’s ability to combine new knowledge with existing knowledge to create new knowledge that is unique to the firm. It is also related to the firm’s ability to diffuse knowledge throughout the organization so that the organization as a whole increases its absorptive capacity. Knowledge diffusion can be facilitated by IT infrastructure and knowledge management system. Knowledge management is aimed at leveraging internal and external knowledge to create value from the firm’s intangible assets. According to Metaxiotis and Psarras (2006), knowledge management contributes to value creation by enhancing: intellectual asset management, operational efficiency, customer and competitor intelligence, continuous improvement, organizational learning, innovation in products and services, and time to market. They report of findings from American Productivity and Quality Center that greater emphasis should be made by firms on “using knowledge management to become more efficient innovators.” To leverage knowledge management for business innovation, IT managers must first understand the basic principles, theories, and practices of knowledge management. Next, they must understand how knowledge management will contribute to innovation. This chapter aims to address both topics to help make IT managers become the IT innovators.

scholarly journals The Role of Venture Capital Investment in Startups’ Sustainable Growth and Performance: Focusing on Absorptive Capacity and Venture Capitalists’ Reputation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jihye Jeong ◽  
Juhee Kim ◽  
Hanei Son ◽  
Dae-il Nam
Keyword(s):  
Venture Capital ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Venture Capital Investment ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Startup Performance ◽  
The Impact

This study provides evidence on how venture capital (VC) investment affects startup firms’ sustainable growth and performance. Despite the rich and abundant research on the relationship between VC investment and startup performance, there is no clear evidence about the contribution of VC investment on the performance and market value of invested firms. In order to accurately measure the impact of VC investment, this study explored how VC investment at each stage of growth affects a startup’s sustainable growth and performance. Based on signaling theory and information asymmetry, this study proposed a positive link between initial-stage VC investment and a startup’s growth and performance. Using a sample of 363 firms listed from 2000 to 2007, this study demonstrated that startups are sustained and perform better as they receive their VC investment at the initial stage. The level of potential absorptive capacity positively moderated this association, unlike realized absorptive capacity, which did not show significant moderating effects.

scholarly journals The Development of Absorptive Capacity-Based Innovation in a Construction SME

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney McAdam ◽  
Kristel Miller ◽  
Nora McMacken ◽  
John Davies
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Innovation Capability ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Design Bid Build

Traditionally, construction has been a transaction-oriented industry. However, it is changing from the design–bid–build process into a business based on innovation capability and performance management, in which contracts are awarded on the basis of factors such as knowledge, intellectual capital and skills. This change presents a challenge to construction-sector SMEs with scarce resources, which must find ways to innovate based on those attributes to ensure their future competitiveness. This paper explores how dynamic capability, using an absorptive capacity framework in response to these challenges, has been developed in a construction-based SME. The paper also contributes to the literature on absorptive capacity and innovation by showing how the construct can be operationalized within an organization. The company studied formed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership using action research over a two-year period with a local university. The aim was to increase its absorptive capacity and hence its ability to meet the changing market challenges. The findings show that absorptive capacity can be operationalized into a change management approach for improving capability-based competitiveness. Moreover, it is important for absorptive capacity constructs and language to be contextualized within a given organizational setting (as in the case of the construction-based SME in the present study).

scholarly journals Antecedents and outcomes of breadth and depth of absorptive capacity: An empirical study

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 764-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Zou ◽  
Feng Guo ◽  
Jinyu Guo
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Depth Of Knowledge ◽  
Absorptive Capacities ◽  
Social Capitals ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Knowledge Depth

AbstractAlthough 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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