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Inter-Organizational Knowledge Transfer: Current Themes and Future Prospects
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In this paper, the authors present a theoretical framework for inter-organizational knowledge transfer and identify key themes covered by the six articles included in the Special Issue on Inter-Organizational Knowledge Transfer, and then discuss priorities for future research.Abstract:
Many papers have been published recently in the fields of strategy and international business research incorporating the role of organizational knowledge as a basis of firm competitive advantage. While such knowledge is normally developed within the firm, it is important that firms possess the ability to learn from others in order to meet the increasing pace of competition. Knowledge transfer, defined here as an event through which one organization learns from the experience of another, has thus become an important research area within the broader domain of organizational learning and knowledge management. This paper presents a theoretical framework, identifies key themes covered by the six articles included in the Special Issue on Inter-Organizational Knowledge Transfer, and then discusses priorities for future research.read more
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PERSPECTIVE---Absorbing the Concept of Absorptive Capacity: How to Realize Its Potential in the Organization Field
TL;DR: It is argued that realizing the potential of the absorptive capacity concept requires more research that shows how “micro-antecedents” and “macro-antechedents" influence future outcomes such as competitive advantage, innovation, and firm performance.
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Absorbing the Concept of Absorptive Capacity: How to Realize Its Potential in the Organization Field
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an integrative model that identifies the multi-level antecedents, process dimensions, and outcomes of absorptive capacity as well as the contextual factors that affect absorptive capacities.
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Expatriate Knowledge Transfer, Subsidiary Absorptive Capacity, and Subsidiary Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors theoretically identify three dimensions of expatriate competenciesability, motivation, and opportunity seeking for knowledge transfer: ability-motivation-opportunity framework and the absorptive capacity perspective.
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Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning
Peter J. Lane,Michael Lubatkin +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconceptualize the firm-level construct absorptive capacity as a learning dyad-level measure, relative absorptive capacities, and test the model using a sample of pharmaceutical-biotechnology R&D alliances.
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The Value of Intra-organizational Social Capital: How it Fosters Knowledge Transfer, Innovation Performance, and Growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that organizational performance outcomes of organization members' social capital hinge on the mediating processes of resource mobilization, assimilation, and use, and show that knowledge transfer mediates between organizational members' intra-organizational social capital and organizational outcomes of growth and innovation performance.
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Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovative capabilities.
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TL;DR: The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members, which has implications for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design, and the determinants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
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TL;DR: In this article, structural holes are defined as network gaps between players which create entrepreneurial opportunities for information access, timing, referrals, and for control, and the structural holes also generate control benefits giving certain players an advantage in negotiating their relationships.