The main purpose of this study is to provide stronger quantitative evidence in the field of
organizational absorptive capacity research by using a more direct measure of absorptive …

Absorptive capacity is one of the most influential concepts in the management and
innovation literature. First introduced by Cohen and Levinthal (1989), it is typically defined …

This paper aims at assessing the magnitude of R&D spillover effects on large international
R&D companies' productivity growth. In particular, we investigate the extent to which R&D …

The innovativeness of an organization has an important impact on its profitability as well as
on the competitiveness of a country's economy as a whole. Since the innovativeness of …

Business investment in research and development (R&D) makes a key contribution to rising
living standards. Firms undertaking the R&D can reduce production costs and introduce new …

19 emerged from recent literature. These concepts are further reviewed and defined for the
purpose of this study. In setting up the theoretical framework, the relationships between …

In this thesis, I deploy a qualitative case-study method to examine the influence of a firm's
absorptive capacity of external knowledge on the origin and evolution of dynamic …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the history of the technological change, more specifically
the technical progress, in related literature and its impact on the economic growth. A set of …

It is widely recognised that firms must develop an absorptive capacity of potentially useful
external knowledge to enhance their innovation performance and help achieve competitive …

Absorptive capacity understood as the appropriation of external knowledge to optimize firm
innovation results when the internal determinants are favorable, has gained worldwide …