ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: HOW KNOWLEDGE ABSORPTION SCOPE, ENVIRONMENTAL TURBULENCE AND KNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY INFLUENCE ORGANIZATIONAL OUTCOMES
This paper examines how knowledge absorption from knowledge complexity, knowledge absorption scope, and environmental turbulence determine a firm’s advances absorptive capacity and influence its organizational outcomes. Using a formal model and a case study, we first argue that enlarging knowledge absorption scope can not always improve a firm’s performance. A firm could achieve significantly higher performance by enlarging its knowledge absorption scope only from a low band to a medium band or absorbing highly complicated knowledge. The impact of knowledge absorption scope on corporate performance decreases as the scope increases from a low band to a medium band or firms absorb highly complicated knowledge. Second, we find that knowledge complexity positively moderates the relationship between knowledge absorption scope and a firm’s performance. This is also conditioned on the scope switch from a low band to a medium band. Third, results show that the rate of environmental turbulence can not influence the relationship between knowledge absorption scope and a firm’s performance. On the contrary, the range of environmental turbulence positively moderate the effect of knowledge absorption scope on a firms’ performance, when a firm enlarges this scope from a low band to a medium band.
Absorptive capacity Knowledge absorption scope Knowledge complexity Environmental turbulence
Dong Bian Pengfei Wang
EM Lyon Business School 23 avenue Guy de Collongue 69134 Ecully cedex France Zhejiang University 388 Yuhangtang Road 310058,Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province P. R. China
国际会议
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2010(2010创新与创业国际学术会议)
北京
英文
386-399
2010-07-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）