EXAMING ORGANIZATION FORMS AND ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY FROM KNOWLEDGE COMPLEXITY AND CONTEXTUAL CHANGE PERSPECTIVES: A THEORETICAL EXTENSION AND CASES OF CHINESE FIRMS’ INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
This paper advances the absorptive capacity framework by examining the knowledge absorption mechanism from knowledge complexity and contextual change perspectives. I argue that different organization forms are required to facilitate absorptive capacity building in a stable knowledge environment and as the environment changes from a stable state to a fast-paced one. In addition, though theories on absorptive capacity and organizaton forms develop, few scholars pay attention to how firms achieve competitive absorptive capacity when they move from a fast-paced simple knowledge environment to a slow-paced complex knowledge environment. With cases of Chinese firms’ international entrepreneurship in the European market, I put forward that firms may need to leverage the already acquired capacilities in a fast-paced simple knowledge environment to help them obtain leadership in a slow-paced complex knowledge environment. After proposing a series of propositions on failure-oriented learning, capability portfolio building and inter-firm institutionalization, I present an evolutionary framework of absorptive capacity.
Absorptive capacity Knowledge complexity Contextual change Evolutionary framework
Dong Bian
Strategy & Organization Division EM Lyon Business School 23 avenue Guy de Collongue 69134 Ecully cedex France
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
180-194
2010-07-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）