Thèses : « Knowledge Integration. Innovation. Absorptive Capacity »

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HAUSBERG, JOHANN PIET. « Intra-Firm Knowledge Integration and Innovation Performance : the Role of Departmental Absorptive Capacities and Firm Environment ». Doctoral thesis, Luiss Guido Carli, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11385/201036.

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Departmental absorptive capacity: its conceptualization and role for cross-functional integration. The role of departmental absorptive capacities at the R&D-marketing interface for innovation performance: evidence from the italian manufacturing industry. How much knowledge integration in MNCs? An agent-based model to find the optimal degree of knowledge integration considering environmental complexity and turbulence.

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Adén, Emil, et Aline Barray. « Go Green in the Automotive Industry : Open and Networked Innovation applied by Tesla Motors and Renault ». Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-348.

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In today’s economical world, companies realize the importance to build corporate strategies on innovation to sustain a continuous profitability. Innovation is a crucial issue to develop a competitive advantage. In our networked economy, companies can not only rely on in-house activities anymore to raise creative and come up with breakthrough innovations they need to collaborate with actors from the external environment. Firms have to think outside their own boundaries to leverage the complementary resources and capabilities needed to innovate. Partnerships help to ensure firms’ future successes.

The purpose of our study is to understand how companies, operating in the automotive industry, integrate ‘Open and Networked Innovation’ concepts in their corporate strategy to enhance their environmental friendly profile. As far as the EV market is concerned, our study will also lead to determine the Key Factors of Success and the barriers that companies have to face when they want to launch an electric car in the market.

Various theoretical approaches have been developed over the time about Open Innovation and Networked Innovation. The dilemma of paradoxical organization needs of radical innovation, exposed by Dr Sigvald Harryson, is our theoretical starting-point to analyze company’s ability to find the right equilibrium between exploration and exploitation and absorptive capacity. Further on, we explore the question of absorptive capacity to know how firms identify, acquire, transfer and transform knowledge.

Thereafter, the theoretical framework is confronted with empirical data based on a qualitative and abductive approach of two case studies – Tesla and Renault. Interviews with Tesla, located in the Silicon Valley, California, USA, have been conducted. We also met two key employees in Renault’s headquarter, Paris, France. Interpretation and explanation of the data collected is reported in our analysis of each case as well as in the cross-case analysis. A presentation of our recommendations and conclusions conclude our master thesis.

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Vespo, Roberto. « Using Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Management : A Case Study of Swedish Housing Cooperatives' Knowledge Promoting Activities ». Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-19611.

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This master thesis analyses the housing cooperative´s capability to manageknowledge in order to improve its performances and create innovation. It is based on the analysis of elite interviews concerning the latest ten years of two Swedish housing cooperatives (bostadsrättsförenigar), which are Brf Grantorpand Brf Kullen that, because of their almost identical properties, made acomparison possible. Absorptive Capacity, which refers to the organization´s ability to identify, assimilate and apply knowledge in its specific context and Knowledge Management, which refers to the organization´s knowledge management activities, provided the basis for the theoretical framework. The empirical data show that, within the organizations, the main sources of knowledge are the Board members: when internal expertise knowledge is present then innovation takes place. Lack of policies in recruiting Board members means that innovation coming from within the organizations is always fortuitous, and depends on the individuals´ previous expertise knowledge. Even if the two years mandate constitutes a constrain in investing in knowledge development, it has been revealed that providing the Board members with a general knowledge in the housing cooperatives´ all-day activities constitutes a solid precondition to capture new opportunities: Brf Kullen acts in a more proactive way and actively identifies opportunities in the environment. Whilst Brf Grantorp does suffer the lack of basic knowledge and acts in a more passive way, waiting for someone else bringing in from the outside. However, both the organizations suffer the lack of explicit knowledge management policies. This is very noticeable when it comes to codification and storage: what is provided is essentially of tacit nature, and blanks out over and over again because it still remains in the members´ heads and it leaves when they leave the Board. Hence, both the organizations´ ability to exploit and transfer knowledge suffers lack of efficiency. Furthermore, even if they offer both formal and informal manners in order to share ideas between Board members, the activities are subject to each Board member´s commitment and time.

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Ljungberg, Patrik, et Tomi Paakkunainen. « The role of psychological distance in knowledge acquisition and absorptive capacity : A quantitative study investigating Nordic firms targeting the elderly population ». Thesis, Umeå universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-122926.

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An aging population is becoming an increasingly growing global phenomenon, and 2050 is said to be a historical breaking point where 65+ will outnumber those between 0-5 years old. However, previous research has failed to provide sufficient explanations for consumer behavior for this particular segment, and a large incidence have been found to share the belief that technology fails to be adapted to meet their needs properly. An overlooked aspect of knowledge management was found and a research gap was thus identified addressing the role of cognition when assessing and interpreting customer needs. The purpose has been to develop a deeper understanding of certain aspects of how companies within this industry acquire and assimilate knowledge, and how product developers perceive the role of cognition in these processes. In order to shed light on these dimensions of knowledge management, a research question has been formulated as follows: "How does psychological distance affect knowledge acquisition, absorptive capacity and relationship quality?" A quantitative study was carried out involving 45 companies operating in a variety of industries ranging from robotics, hygiene and special nutrition, to eldercare and mobility products. Altogether, 51 responses were collected and analyzed using simple- and multiple regression, and were subsequently discussed based on a developed theoretical framework. The results found in this study have been used to identify combinations of cognitive dimensions and relationship quality for the purpose of developing a better understanding of its respective impact on knowledge acquisition and absorptive capacity. The findings culminated in a model through which to explain for these combinations of psychological distance, level of construal and relationship quality and their effect on the ability to acquire and disseminate new knowledge from elderly.High-level information was found easier to acquire among the respondent companies, and low-level contrarily easier to absorb. Greater psychological distance in combination with low relationship quality had a positive impact of high-level construal individuals to acquire knowledge from external sources. In contrast to these findings, perceived proximity in the psychological distances and high relationship quality were jointly found to assist in knowledge dissemination processes for low-level construal individuals.

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Nunes, Anne Catherine Lopes Pereira. « The impact of knowledge transfer on innovation in multinational corporations : exploring the contingent effects ». Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9465.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
This direct research explores the contingencies of the relation between knowledge transfer and new product outcomes in Multinational companies. Indeed, in a MNC context, “the conditions under which such knowledge transfer can serve to induce positive outcomes remain unclear.”(Lee, 2008, p 1) After a deep literature review of knowledge transfer and new product outcomes literature, an exploratory study was conducted to understand which factors can influence the impact of knowledge transfer in new product outcomes, with the purpose to give insights about the way to approach a further study. We propose the following three internal contingencies: network strength, absorptive capacity, customer orientation and an external one: technological turbulence, through a semi structured interview guide conducted with 12 top managers. Globally, the exploratory study has provided confirmation for the variables proposed.

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Orman, Aaron, et Marko Tukic. « Attitudes towards External Knowledge Sourcing & ; Knowledge-Oriented Leadership ». Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22625.

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External knowledge sourcing is not only an integral practice within knowledge management, its successful facilitation through leadership has a pressing importance for companies in order to stay innovative and thus competitive in an economic environment, shaped by the dominant and continuous influence of globalization and the increasingly fast pace of technological innovation. Hereby, only limited research has been conducted in the relation between knowledge-oriented leadership, knowledge management, and innovation.This thesis is contextualized in the scientific discourse which concerns itself with the role of individual attitudes towards external knowledge sourcing, as well as the facilitating role of leadership towards changing individual attitudes. This thesis is, furthermore, also contextualized within the concepts of open innovation and absorptive capacity, which, respectively, are consequences of the spatial effects of globalization and the temporal effects of the fast pace of technological innovation.Research Question: Facing the challenges of globalization and the fast-changing pace of technology, what patterns between employee’s attitudes towards external knowledge acquisition and employee’s perceived leadership behaviors can be observed within tech companies in Sweden?In order to answer the proposed research question, we conducted a qualitative research including nine semi-structured interviews with employees with a technical background in tech companies in Sweden, ranging from small to large companies and with local to multinational operations.Our main findings represent a generally positive attitude towards external knowledge sourcing within our research scope, which relates with high levels of transformational leadership. Still, we were not able to explore the existence of knowledge-oriented leadership.This thesis contributes to the body of knowledge management, innovation, and leadership research, as it provides a first look into previously identified research gaps, namely the impact of knowledge-oriented leadership and knowledge management on open innovation (Naqshbandi & Jasimuddin, 2018) and the missing connection of the three separate bodies: leadership, knowledge management, and innovation (Donate & de Pablo, 2015)

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Dreimanis, Arturs, et Spyros Charalambous. « Exploring the concept of open innovation in low-tech SMEs. Evidence from Cyprus and Latvia ». Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35814.

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Background: The concept of open innovation has surfaced for over a decade now and organizations have started to realize its importance and contribution. It has been also a topic of discussion during the last years but it still paves the way for future research. However, majority of the studies made so far were focused on its origins meaning high-tech companies situated in developed and large countries. Little, has been contributed to a context of low-tech SMEs in developing and developing countries. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of open innovation in a context of low-tech SMEs in small and developing countries but as well as exploring the knowledge perspective in relation to innovation process. Method: The methodology used for this study is qualitative with an inductive approach. The empirical data were gathered through an appropriate inductive approach by using semi-structure interviews. With the help of frame of reference, we structured our topic guide for our data collection method. The gathered empirical data are then analysed using the inductively based analytical procedure of template analysis. Lastly, as the template analysis procedures suggest, coding was carried out in order to see emerging patterns and relationships between our empirical data, which later they were interpreted as our results. Conclusion: The empirical results show some patterns between elements of the concept of open innovation. Concluding, the low-tech companies in small and developing countries are not fully aware of the concept of open innovation. However, they are exploiting several of the elements that surround open innovation. Regarding knowledge in their innovation process, we conclude that managerial levels play a crucial role. Since they do not have a systematic innovation process and instead are more opportunistic towards innovation, all the efforts for any knowledge identification and exploitation reside usually to the hands of one individual.

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Lundmark, Erik. « The Mobility of People, Ideas and Knowledge in the Entrepreneurial Society ». Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Projekt, innovationer och entreprenörskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-63570.

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As radical innovations facilitate communication, create new industries and make others obsolete, the established ways of organising society are being questioned. Over the last few decades, a theoretical framework and a worldview labelled the entrepreneurial society, has emerged. The entrepreneurial society is based on theoretical models, empirical observations and a belief in the importance of new businesses. The core of the entrepreneurial society is the claim that valuable ideas have to be commercialised in order to contribute to economic growth and prosperity. Unfortunately, valuable ideas remain dormant due to a number of barriers. Labour mobility, informal networks and entrepreneurship are mechanisms with the potential of overcoming these barriers. This thesis aims to increase our understanding of how ideas diffuse between and get applied within organisations. The thesis relates its findings to the entrepreneurial society and identifies and critically assesses basic assumptions and biases underlying the framework. The thesis presents and discusses six studies, each published as an article in a scientific journal, a chapter in an edited book, or as a conference paper at an international academic conference. Taken together, the findings in this thesis emphasise that the mobility of ideas is intertwined with the mobility of people and knowledge. More specifically, the findings indicate that employees in large R&Ddriven projects not only attain knowledge from external sources, but also that the use of external knowledge sources is positively related to new ideas connected to the projects. In addition, this thesis reinforces the argument that the mobility of knowledge workers is particularly beneficial to the diffusion of knowledge and ideas between organisations; the results show that employees in knowledge-intensive positions perceive greater opportunities to generate, share and develop ideas in organisations, as compared to employees in less knowledge-intensive positions. This thesis suggests that new employees tend to have an entrepreneurial potential in the form of a greater drive for change and less habituation with current practices. Nevertheless, such potential is often curbed by resistant routines. However, the thesis also finds that much entrepreneurship literature and the discourse of policy makers are biased towards overly optimistic views of entrepreneurship. The literature on the entrepreneurial society emphasises the diffusion and application of new R&D-related knowledge and ideas. This thesis also emphasises the diffusion and application of already widespread and established knowledge, ideas and innovations.
I takt med att radikala innovationer underlättar kommunikation, skapar nya branscher och gör andra obsoleta, ifrågasätts etablerade sätt att organisera samhället. De senaste årtiondena har ett teoretiskt ramverk och en världsåskådning, under benämningen det entreprenöriella samhället, vuxit fram. Det entreprenöriella samhället baseras på teoretiska modeller, empiriska observationer och en tro på vikten av nya företag. Kärnan i det entreprenöriella samhället är tesen att värdefulla idéer måste kommersialiseras för att bidra till ekonomisk tillväxt och välstånd. Olyckligtvis förblir många idéer outnyttjade på grund av en mängd barriärer. Arbetskraftsrörlighet, informella nätverk och entreprenörskap är mekanismer med potential att övervinna dessa barriärer. Syftet med denna avhandling är att öka vår förståelse av hur idéer sprids mellan, och tillämpas inom, organisationer. Avhandlingen relaterar resultaten till det entreprenöriella samhället, samt identifierar och granskar ramverkets underliggande antaganden och blinda fläckar. Avhandlingen presenterar och diskuterar sex studier, var och en publicerad som en artikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift, som ett kapitel i en akademisk antologi eller som ett bidrag till en internationell vetenskaplig konferens. Sammantaget understryker resultaten i avhandlingen att idéers rörlighet är sammanvävd med människors och kunskaps rörlighet. Resultaten tyder på att anställda i stora FoU-drivna projekt inte bara inhämtar kunskap från externa källor utan också att dessa källor är relaterade till nya idéer och lösningar på problem i projekten. Vidare förstärker resultaten tidigare forskning som hävdar att organisationsbyten bland människor med kunskapsintensiva arbeten särskilt bidrar till att idéer och kunskap sprids mellan organisationer; resultaten visar att anställda med kunskapsintensiva arbeten upplever större möjligheter att generera, föreslå och utveckla idéer jämfört med anställda i mindre kunskapsintensiva positioner. Avhandlingens resultat indikerar också att nyanställda har en större entreprenöriell potential än mer etablerade anställda. Detta för att nyanställda har en större förändringsbenägenhet och att de ännu inte är inskolade i etablerade arbetssätt. Denna potential hålls emellertid ofta tillbaka av motståndskraftiga organisatoriska rutiner. Dessutom hävdar avhandlingen att mycket av entreprenörskapslitteraturen och den politiska diskursen uppvisar en överoptimistisk syn på entreprenörskap. Litteraturen bakom det entreprenöriella samhället betonar spridningen och tillämpningen av forskningsnära kunskap. Denna avhandling betonar även vidare spridning av redan spridd och etablerad kunskap, samt redan spridda och etablerade idéer och innovationer.

The authors Licentiate thesis "Organisational adoption of innovations : management practices and IT" is a part of this dissertation.

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Olsson, Alexander, Johannes Tilstam et Carl Thomsen. « Absorberingsförmåga : En studie av hur absorbering av extern information och kunskap kan påverka värdeskapande ». Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-30983.

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Denna studie har utförts på ett försäkringsföretag som har sin verksamhet inom en nischad marknad som erbjuder försäkringar vid nybyggnation av fastigheter. I företaget finns en funktion som har upprättade processer för hantering av externa samarbetspartners, vilken studien har avgränsats till. Med ett kvalitativt angreppssätt har författarna utgått från företagets processer för att sedan teoretiskt underbygga analysen. Författarna har undersökt hur viktig insamling och absorbering av extern information är för värdeskapande. Resultatet av studien visar att insamling av extern information är viktigt och författarna har kunnat framställa en arbetsmodell för att försäkringsföretaget systematiskt ska kunna arbeta med extern informationsinsamling och absorbering för skapandet av värde och innovation.
This study has been conducted with an insurance company in a niche market offering insurances within new construction for real estate. The extent of this research paper has been limited to one of the functions in the company’s operating procedures, involving external collaboration partners’. With a qualitative approach the researchers’ have examined the company’s procedures and analysed it against relevant theories. The researchers’ have investigated the importance of the gathering and absorbing of external information for value-creation. The result shows that the gathering of external information is extremely important and the researchers’ have constructed a business model in order to systematically conduct external knowledge sourcing to create value and innovation.

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Kettle, Laura, et Rosen Louise von. « Småföretags framtida utvecklingsavdelning : En katalysator för innovation ? » Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-27387.

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Det kunskapssamhälle som råder idag medför att organisationer måste rusta sig och hålla ett högt tempo i den förändringsbenägna omvärlden. Kunskap och lärande ses däremellan som nyckelaktiviteter i relation till förändring vilket i sin tur föder innovation. Forskning har påvisat att småföretag förväntas bidra till en större del av näringslivets tillväxt, men att småföretagen samtidigt har behov av att höja sin innovationskapacitet för att möta utmaningen. Studien avsåg därför att utforska småföretag i extern samverkan för att se huruvida ett sådant kunskapsutbyte skapat förutsättningar för innovation hos den egna organisationen. Med hjälp av en kvalitativ forskningsmetodik undersöktes sex småföretagsledare som deltagit i det lärande nätverket, Tillväxtmotorn, via semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultatet påvisade att småföretag inte aktivt arbetade med att ta tillvara på kunskapsutbytet som framkommit från Tillväxtmotorn på grund av tidsbrist, en bristfällig strategisk ledning eller värdesättandet av kunskap och lärande. En modell skapades i riktning att ge småföretagsledare verktyg till att ta tillvara samt integrera kunskapsutbytet med den egna organisationen i större utsträckning och på så vis öka dess innovationskapacitet.
The knowledge society that currently exists demands that organizations must adequately equip themselves and be able to maintain a fast pace of learning and adaptation in the changing environment. Knowledge and learning are seen as key activities in relation to change, which in turn generates innovation. Research has shown that small businesses are expected to contribute to a larger percentage of economic growth, than previously, and that small businesses simultaneously have the need to raise their innovation capacity to meet these challenges. The study intended, therefore, to explore small businesses participation in external partnerships to see whether such an exchange of knowledge for innovation in the organization is effective. Using a qualitative research technique, six small business leaders who participated in the learning network were interviewed, using semi-structured questionnaires concerning the ”engine of growth”. The results demonstrated that small businesses are not proactively working to take advantage of the knowledge exchange that emerged from the growth engine due to a lack of time, inadequate strategic direction or their value planting of knowledge and learning. A model was created to provide small business leaders tools to utilize and integrate knowledge exchange with its own organization to a greater extent, thus increasing its capacity for innovation.

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Machado, Raquel Engelman. « Influência do capital intelectual na capacidade absortiva e na inovação ». reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/98329.

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Esta tese tem como objetivo principal verificar a influência do Capital Intelectual na Capacidade Absortiva das empresas, bem como da Capacidade Absortiva (ACAP) na inovação. O argumento teórico desta tese tem como base a Visão Baseada em Recursos, onde pressupõe-se que conjuntos de recursos intangíveis, como o Capital Intelectual, são mobilizados pelas firmas através de capacidades dinâmicas, como a Capacidade Absortiva do conhecimento, levando as empresas a resultados, tais como inovação de produtos. O estudo justifica-se pelas contribuições teóricas, metodológicas e práticas que pretende aportar para as áreas de gestão do conhecimento e inovação, permitindo compreender melhor os conceitos, bem como as interrelações entre eles. Inicialmente realizou-se estudo exploratório com 12 empresas, a partir de uma abordagem qualitativa, visando ampliar os conhecimentos sobre o ambiente pesquisado e proporcionar uma estruturação mais robusta do questionário. Posteriormente, o estudo quantitativo abrangeu 500 indústrias gaúchas de portes, intensidades tecnológicas e setores variados. A partir do método de modelagem de equações estruturais, o exame dos índices de ajustamento e sua significância estatística confirmaram a validade de todos os construtos e do modelo. Também serviu para a sustentação ou refutação das hipóteses do estudo. A partir das evidências, pode-se concluir que o Capital Intelectual influencia a Capacidade Absortiva, mas os elementos que o compõe refletem de modo diferente nas dimensões da ACAP. As capacidades de Aquisição, Assimilação e Exploração do conhecimento são influenciadas de forma mais contundente pelo Capital Organizacional, seguido pelo Capital Humano. A capacidade de Transformação do conhecimento é influenciada de forma equilibrada pelo Capital Organizacional e Humano, e de forma mais moderada pelo Capital Social. Por sua vez, a Capacidade Absortiva influencia a inovação, sendo que cada dimensão impacta de modo diverso. Aquisição e Exploração do conhecimento influenciam de modo mais intenso, e Transformação do conhecimento de forma mais moderada. A validação dos construtos apresenta-se como contribuição relevante, pois demonstra empiricamente a validade dos conceitos teóricos e apresenta avanços metodológicos para a mensuração dos mesmos a partir do desenvolvimento de escalas e de um modelo integrado, servindo a acadêmicos e gestores. Especificamente para o setor industrial, esta pesquisa contribui para traçar um perfil do desenvolvimento de seus recursos intangíveis, das capacidades relacionadas ao conhecimento, de suas atividades de pesquisa e desenvolvimento, bem como dos resultados relacionados à inovação. Esta caracterização pode servir de parâmetro de comparação tanto para as empresas, como para os gestores públicos definirem políticas de incentivo à inovação. Novas pesquisas em diferentes setores e países poderão aprofundar as relações entre estes construtos, bem como incluir fatores externos e a relação específica com inovação incremental e radical.
This thesis aims to investigate the influence of Intellectual Capital on Absorptive Capacity of firms, as well as the influence of Absorptive Capacity on innovation. The theoretical argument of this thesis is based on the Resource Based View, which assumes that sets of intangible assets such as Intellectual Capital are mobilized by firms through dynamic capabilities such as knowledge Absorptive Capacity, leading to results such as product innovation. The study is justified by theoretical, methodological and practices in the areas of knowledge management and innovation, enabling a better understanding of concepts, as well as the interrelationships between them. Using the qualitative approach, an exploratory study was initially performed with 12 companies aiming to expand the knowledge about the environment researched and to provide a more robust structure to the questionnaire. Subsequently, the quantitative study covered 500 industries in southern Brazil of different sizes, sectors and technological intensities. Using the method of structural equation modeling, the examination of adjustment indexes and statistical significance confirmed the validity of all the constructs and model. It also served to support or refute the hypotheses of the study. Given the evidences, it can be concluded that the Intellectual Capital influences Absorptive Capacity, but the elements that compose the Intellectual Capital reflect differently on the dimensions of ACAP. The capabilities of Acquisition, Assimilation and Exploitation of knowledge are influenced more decisively by Organizational Capital, followed by Human Capital. The ability of Transformation of knowledge is influenced evenly by Organizational and Human Capital, and more moderately by Social Capital. In turn, the Absorptive Capacity influences innovation, and each of its dimension has a different impact. Knowledge Acquisition and Exploitation have a more intense influence, and knowledge Transformation has a moderate one. The validation of the constructs is presented as a relevant contribution, it empirically demonstrates the validity of the theoretical concepts and presents methodological advances in its measurement, from scales and development of an integrated model, serving to academics and managers. Primarily for the industrial sector, this research helps to draw a profile of the development of its intangible assets, related to the knowledge of their research and development, as well as results related to innovation capabilities. This characterization can serve as a benchmark both for businesses and for public administrators helping them to define policies to encourage innovation. New studies in different sectors and countries may deepen relations between these constructs, and include external factors and specific relationship to incremental and radical innovation.

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Ahlgrimm, Michael. « External Knowledge Acquisition And Transfer From Innovation Clusters To Central R&D Unit : The Mediating Role Of R&D Listening Posts As Technological Gatekeepers ». Thesis, University of Kalmar, Baltic Business School, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-1183.

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Over the last few decades, the industrialized world in general and the automobile industry in particular was hit by immense changes which strongly influence the management of R&D. Trends such as globalization and sharp competition on worldwide open markets, increasing product complexity in order to meet the customers’ desires for more variety and individualization, technology fusion and cross industry innovations, high level of technological and competitive uncertainty, increasing pressure to reduce R&D budgets, and shorter time to market and reduced innovation cycles in consequence of rising competition, force companies to source external knowledge and to bring in and exploit outside-in innovations instead of reinventing them their selves. In the same way, the Open Innovation concept highlights the need for organizations to open up their innovation processes. As a consequence, many R&D organizations are being transformed in order to meet the upcoming challenges and established technological listening posts to source external knowledge in centers of technological excellence and innovation.

This study focus on the knowledge acquisition, transformation and transfer from innovation cluster to central R&D, and examines the roles and typologies of technological gatekeepers. Based on a sound literature review and in-depth qualitative study of the case company BMW, this thesis explores how technological listening posts can take the mediating role of technology gatekeepers and how different mechanisms and typologies for gatekeeping can be deployed for optimal transformation and transfer of external knowledge into internal innovation.

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Scaringella, Laurent. « Which organizational capabilities and inter-organizational knowledge dynamics enable innovation within an ecosystem ? » Thesis, Rennes 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN1G010.

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Cette thèse aborde différents thèmes comme les écosystèmes, la capacité d'absorption et l’innovation radicale. À partir de notre étude systématique de la littérature, nous identifions les invariants des quatre courants divergents de l'approche par écosystème et les invariants des sept courants divergents de l'approche territoriale à travers un modèle intégrateur. Notre contribution vise à renforcer les fondations du champ des écosystèmes par l'approche territoriale. D'après l’étude d’une joint-venture dans le contexte iranien, nos conclusions indiquent que l'innovation radicale est associée à des problèmes de sécurité, de qualité et de planification, entraînant des retards, une non-conformité vis-à-vis du cahier des charges et des coûts supplémentaires. Notre contribution vise à approfondir le concept de dyade d’apprentissage en caractérisant un phénomène bidirectionnel entre deux organisations jouant à la fois le rôle d’enseignant et d’élève. Dans notre étude des spin-offs technologiques grenobloises, nos résultats montrent l’importance de développer des capacités d’absorption potentielles et réalisées. Ces capacités permettent l’internalisation des connaissances du client et la prise de conscience d’émergence technologique, tout en palliant au manque de connaissances techniques des clients lors de la formulation de leurs besoins. Notre contribution vise à fournir un nouvel éclairage sur la participation des clients au processus d’innovation radicale en observant le degré de participation des clients à différentes étapes et d’évaluer leurs rôles dans le processus de développement d’innovations radicales
This dissertation is dealing with different topics such as ecosystem, absorptive capacity and radical innovation. From our systematic literature review of ecosystems based on a selection of 104 articles and books, we identify the invariants across the four diverging streams from the ecosystem approach and the seven diverging streams from the territorial approach toward the proposition of a new research framework. Our contribution aims at enriching the field of ecosystem with the strong theoretical background of the territorial approach. From our study of a joint venture in the Iranian context, our findings indicate that radical innovation is characterized by safety, quality, and planning challenges which engender delays, non-conformity to specifications, and additional costs. Our contribution aims at further developing the concept of “learning dyad” by characterizing a two-way learning between two organizations playing both roles of teachers and students. From our study of technological spin-offs in Grenoble context, our findings show the importance of spin-offs developing both potential and realized absorptive capacities to internalize customer knowledge and technology emergence awareness and to simultaneously offset customers’ lack of technical knowledge in formulating their needs. Our contribution aims at providing new insights to the area of customer involvement in the radical innovation process by examining how the level of customer involvement at different stages has improved or hindered the process of developing radical innovations

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Imbert, Guillaume. « Le rôle des Knowledge Intensive Business Services dans la capacité d'absorption : le cas des contrats d'innovation ». Thesis, Grenoble, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014GRENA026/document.

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La connaissance étant au coeur de la création et du développement d’un avantage concurrentiel à travers l’innovation, la capacité des organisations à absorber les connaissances en provenance de l’extérieur est aujourd’hui devenue critique. Cette recherche soutient que le déclenchement et le développement d’un processus d’absorption ne peuvent résulter des seuls efforts organisationnels internes. Elle vise à comprendre la façon dont les services marchands à forte intensité de connaissances (Knowledge-Intensive Business, KIBS) peuvent améliorer le processus d’absorption de leurs clients.En se basant sur l’approche par les capacités dynamiques, cette recherche met en évidence la nécessité de prendre en compte : (1) les conditions d’émergence et du développement de la capacité d’absorption ; (2) le rôle des organisations externes dans le processus d’absorption. Cette thèse sur travaux repose sur un article théorique et trois articles empiriques qui s’appuient sur une méthodologie qualitative d’études de cas multiples dans le secteur du conseil en conception innovante.Cette thèse donne lieu à trois contributions majeures en faisant émerger : (1) la notion de « capacité d’insémination » du KIBS qui adopte, sélectionne,contextualise et préserve les connaissances afin de faciliter le déclenchement et le développement d’un processus d’absorption de la part de son client ; (2) les correspondances entre la capacité d’insémination des KIBS et la capacité d’absorption de leurs clients ; (3) l’accompagnement par le KIBS des activités de co-production du client, critiques en conception innovante. Au final, cette recherche contribue à la littérature en sciences de gestion et en management stratégique sur la capacité d’absorption et l’innovation. Les résultats débouchent sur des recommandations managériales visant à développer la capacité d’absorption des entreprises au travers de la relation de service et de conseil
With knowledge at the heart of the creation and maintenance of competitive advantage through innovation, an organization’s ability to absorb external knowledge is critical. This research supports the idea that the initiation and perpetuation of a knowledge absorption process are not only the result of internal organizational efforts. It aims to improve understanding of how Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) can enhance their clients’ absorption process. Based on the dynamic capabilities approach, this research highlights the need to take into account: (1) the conditions that will enable the initiation and perpetuation of a knowledge absorption process; (2) the role of external organizations into absorption process. This Multi-Monograph Thesis is composed of one theoretical article and three empirical articles utilizing qualitative multiple-case study methodology in the field of innovative design consulting. This thesis leads to three major contributions: (1) the notion of the “insemination capacity” of KIBS, which is the ability to adopt, select, contextualize and preserve knowledge so as to initiate and perpetuate a knowledge absorption process; (2) the connections between absorptive and insemination capacities; (3) the guidance provided to a client’s co-production activities in the context of innovative design. Ultimately, this research contributes to Management Sciences and Strategic Management literature on absorptive capacity and innovation. It also provides recommendations to managers on how to develop absorptive capacity through the service and consulting relationship

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Van, Dongen Bram, et Hela Galvis. « How we belong : A qualitative study of 19 journeys to talent recruitment and beyond ». Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Företagsekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177555.

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Background: There is a talent mismatch in Sweden. Companies are limited by a labour shortage, especially in the digital sector, and available talent has a low rate of hiring. Therefore, this study is focused on understanding the underlying reasons for this talent mismatch understanding it from an absorptive capacity process of knowledge and diversity in the digital sector. This research structure approaches this study by investigating the attraction, recruitment, development, and retention of talent in companies through an absorptive capacity lens. Aim: Broadening the understanding of why there is a mismatch between available talent and firms in Sweden. Methodology: A qualitative study method was done for the data collection and data analysis. Two clusters were created to explore the research process divided into companies and students. A proposed model was utilised to analyse the data and provide the results that confirmed different factors of the absorptive capacity process and the influence of diversity that serve to identify new findings. The thesis demonstrates that the absorptive capacity process can positively or negatively affect the influence of diversity in organisations. The factors that lead to these different outcomes are described in the various phases portrayed by the proposed model. However, the absorptive capacity process describes how people, in general, are retained in organisations and how the sense of belonging to the organisations is fundamental for a positive absorptive capacity process that leads to talent retention. Findings: Diversity related mechanisms that influence a match or mismatch between available talent and organisations. Keywords: Absorptive capacity process · Diversity · Employee life cycle · Knowledge integration· Science Parks

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ARONICA, Martina. « ESSAYS ON THE DRIVERS OF FIRM COMPETITIVENESS ». Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Palermo, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10447/395286.

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Vidal, Valéria Schneider. « A capacidade absortiva e as atividades de inovação em pequenas empresas : um estudo de múltiplos casos na indústria náutica brasileira ». reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/106961.

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Com base na literatura sobre capacidade absortiva e nos estudos de inovação, argumenta-se neste trabalho que a capacidade absortiva influencia as atividades de de inovação. O modelo de capacidade absortiva utilizado foi o de Zahra e George (2002), que tem por base a capacidade absortiva potencial (dimensões de aquisição e assimilação) e capacidade absortiva realizada (dimensões de transformação e exploração (exploitation)). A inovação foi entendida como um processo que pode gerar inovações organizacionais, em produtos e processos, e de marketing. Este estudo tem por foco, porém, inovações de produtos e processos. Dessa forma, com o objetivo de entender como a capacidade absortiva influencia a inovação de produtos e processos em micro e pequenas empresas brasileiras, o presente estudo adotou uma abordagem qualitativa, por meio da investigação sob a forma de múltiplos casos. Para isso, foram desenvolvidos dois estudos de casos no segmento da indústria náutica. Os casos foram analisados em separado e depois foram comparados, buscando semelhanças que ampliassem a compreensão do fenômeno. Os resultados sugerem que há uma influência positiva da capacidade absortiva nas atividades de inovação das micro e pequenas empresas da indústria náutica brasileira. Alguns elementos diferenciais foram encontrados, como o fato de que, nos casos estudados, o processo de inovação se inicia a partir da experiência acumulada, da percepção dos proprietários, das informações oriundas de clientes e velejadores e das informações obtidas junto aos fornecedores. Outro elemento foi de que há, por vezes, um processo de realimentação entre as dimensões de assimilação e transformação, mesmo que curto, antes da informação ser explorada (exploited) sob a forma de novos produtos ou de processos mais eficientes. Por fim, foi encontrado que o nível de desenvolvimento da capacidade absortiva influencia na inovação de produtos e processos. A contribuição final do estudo se compõe de um framework integrado que demonstra a influência e o funcionamento da capacidade absortiva na geração de inovações de produtos e processos nas empresas estudadas.
Based on the literature on absorptive capacity and innovation studies, it is argued in this research that the absorptive capacity influences the activities of innovation. It was used the model of absorptive capacity of Zahra and George (2002), which is based on the potential absorptive capacity comprised by the dimensions of acquisition and assimilation, and on realized absorptive capacity, based on the dimensions of transformation and exploitation. Innovation is understood as a process that can generate innovations in products and processes, services, organization and marketing. However, this study focuses on innovations in products and processes. Thus, in order to understand how the absorptive capacity influences the innovation of products and processes in Brazilian micro and small firms, this study adopted a qualitative approach. A multiple cases study was conducted in the marine industry. The two cases were analyzed separately and then compared, looking for similarities that would broaden the understanding of the phenomenon. The results suggest a positive influence of absorptive capacity on innovation activities of micro and small firms in the Brazilian marine industry. Some differential elements were found, such as the fact that, in the cases studied, the process of innovation starts from the accumulated experience, the perception of the owners, the information from customers and sailors and the information obtained from the suppliers. Another factor is that there is sometimes a feedback process between the dimensions of assimilation and transformation, even though short, before the information is exploited in the form of new products and more efficient processes. Finally, it was found that the level of development of absorptive capacity influences the innovation of products and processes. The final contribution of this study consists of an integrative framework that demonstrates the influence and operation of absorptive capacity in generating innovation of products and processes in micro and small firms.

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Trabelsi-Jabeur, Imene. « Etude explicative de l’innovation à partir des connaissances : proposition d’une approche par les capacités ». Thesis, Paris 11, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA111003.

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L’objet de cette thèse est l’analyse de l’innovation à partir des connaissances autour de l’approche Knowledge-Based Innovation (KBI) qui décrit l’innovation à travers le prisme de la connaissance. L’innovation s’apparente, foncièrement, à un processus de création, d’application et de diffusion de différents types de connaissances. Cette recherche se focalise sur la phase cognitive de l’innovation dont l’ancrage choisi a été celui d’une approche par les capacités. Nous cherchons alors à identifier les capacités organisationnelles qui sous-tendent l’innovation en amont et à expliquer comment ces capacités s’articulent pour favoriser l’innovation à partir des connaissances. A la lumière des développements théoriques effectués, nous avons élaboré notre modèle conceptuel de recherche qui consacre le rôle médiateur de la capacité d’absorption.La démarche méthodologique appliquée est qualimétrique. Deux études empiriques ont été menées. La première est qualitative, basée sur des entretiens exploratoires. Elle a permis, dans un premier temps, de décrire et d’illustrer les relations étudiées, et dans un second temps, d’affiner nos interrogations et de les enrichir par deux nouvelles propositions de recherche. La deuxième étude est quantitative. Elle s’est basée sur l’administration du questionnaire conçu, à des entreprises françaises œuvrant majoritairement dans le secteur industriel. Cette étude, basée sur la méthode des équations structurelles, a validé globalement le modèle développé en affirmant la médiation partielle de la capacité d’absorption, mais elle a rejeté, toutefois, l’existence de relations entre les investissements en R&D et la capacité d’absorption
The purpose of this thesis is the analysis of the Knowledge-Based Innovation (KBI) which describes innovation through the prism of knowledge approach. Innovation seems essentially like a process of creation, application and dissemination of different types of knowledge. This research focuses on the cognitive phase of innovation explained according to a capability approach. We seek to identify organizational capabilities that sustain innovation and to explain how these capabilities are linked to promote innovation based on knowledge. We developed then a conceptual model that establishes the mediating role of absorptive capacity.Our methodology is based on two empirical studies. The first is qualitative, based on exploratory interviews. It enabled to illustrate the studied relationships, to refine our questions and to enrich the conceptual model with two new research proposals. The second study is quantitative. It is based on the administration of the questionnaire designed for French companies which operate mainly in the industrial sector. This study, based on a structural equation method, validated the overall developed model. It asserted the partial mediation of the absorption capacity. However the existence of relationships between investment in R&D and absorptive capacity was rejected

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Barreneche, Garcia Andrés. « Intellectual Capital as a Driver of Product Innovation : empirical Studies on European Firms ». Thesis, Paris 11, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA111001.

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La théorie des ressources affirme que les avantages concurrentiels résident dans la mobilisation des actifs précieux qui sont difficiles à imiter. L'Approche du Capital Immatériel (ACI) prolonge cet argument en étudiant ces ressources; plus particulièrement celles qui sont fondées sur la connaissance et qui peuvent être classifiées dans l'une des catégories suivantes: Capital Humain, Capital Structurel, ou Capital Relationnel.Cette thèse cherche à évaluer l'ACI en tant que cadre pour rechercher les conditions favorables permettant aux entreprises d'innover en créant des nouveaux biens et services (produits). Spécifiquement, ce projet doctoral vise à analyser les rôles de chaque type de capital immatériel dans l'innovation de produits. Fondée sur des données européennes, cette thèse examine différents types d'entreprises (nouvelles, petites et moyennes entreprises, et grandes entreprises) et les secteurs d'activités (y compris l'industrie et les services). Le Chapitre 1 examine le capital humain et d'autres déterminants du taux de création d'entreprises dans les villes européennes. Ensuite, le Chapitre 2 examine l'impact de la diffusion des connaissances sur la façon dont l'investissement en R&D interne apporte à l'innovation de produits. Puis, le Chapitre 3 utilise le concept de capacité d'absorption pour explorer comment les similarités des actifs immatériels entre les entreprises sont associées à la performance de leur capital relationnel.En général, ce projet doctoral souligne que l'ACI fournit un cadre propice pour formuler et vérifier des hypothèses concernant les moteurs de l'innovation de produits. Il permet de mener des études portant sur la façon dont les entreprises mobilisent leurs actifs immatériels afin de développer et commercialiser de nouveaux produits. Par ailleurs, cette approche facilite l'interprétation des résultats afin de recommander des décisions managériales et des politiques publiques visant à articuler davantage les pratiques des entreprises
The resource-based view of the firm argues that competitive advantages lie in the use of valuable resources that are difficult to emulate. The intellectual capital-based view (ICV) extends this argument by studying such resources; particularly intangible (or knowledge) assets that may be classified in three main components: human, structural, and relational capital.This thesis aims to evaluate the ICV as a framework for understanding the favorable conditions that allow firms to innovate by creating new goods and services (i.e., products). Specifically, this thesis seeks to analyze the specific roles of each capital capital component in product innovation. Using European data, it covers an ample range of firm types (i.e, nascent firms, small and medium-sized enterprises, and large firms) and business sectors (including manufacturing and services). Chapter 1 investigates human capital and other determinants of business creation as a measure of entrepreneurship in European cities. Chapter 2 examines the impact of knowledge spillovers on in-house R&D investment and innovation performance in firms. Chapter 3 leverages the concept of absorptive capacity to explore whether similar configurations of IC are associated with the performance of relational capital in companies.Overall, this dissertation finds that the ICV provides a fertile ground to formulate and test hypotheses concerning the drivers of product innovation. It allows to focus research on how companies mobilize intangible assets in order to develop and commercialize new goods and services. Furthermore, this approach provides several lessons for managers and policy recommendations that may help to articulate corporate practices

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Mohd, Yusof Zatun Najahah. « The role of university-industry-government relationship in cluster development : the case of MSC Malaysia ». Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20387.

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Malaysia is a transition economic country that aims to be a developed country by 2020. In realising this mission (Vision 2020), the cluster concept has been an interest and adopted by the central authorities. There are few years ahead to reach the targeted year and it interest of this study to investigate the relevant development on its own engineered cluster of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) that was put forward on the success of Silicon Valley in the US. This thesis focuses on the development of the MSC cluster in the Malaysia context. It examines and measures the state of the cluster, the role played by its core actors (from Triple Helix perspective) and their relationship in the MSC. The role of collaboration has been used to measure the relationship among actors with the key determinants of cluster formation. A mixed data collection method was used to answer the research question and objectives involved. A conceptual model for analysing the MSC cluster is proposed, bringing together insights from the literature on clusters, role of actors, collaborative relationship and the complex systems of innovation approach. This conceptual model uncover the weaknesses of social dimension (social infrastructure) in Porter’s diamond model and the general approach of Triple Helix model in the cluster development. The cluster lifecycle model is used to add the depth to the analysis on the condition of cluster development.

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Ask, Amanda, et t. Hof Christian van'. « Knowledge Transfer in Innovation Development Teams : A Case Study of Atlas Copco ». Thesis, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256297.

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Abstract This study addresses the research gap on knowledge transfer on a team level, by examining the potential and realized Absorptive Capacity (ACAP) on the receiver's side and potential and realized Disseminative Capacity (DCAP) on the sender's side. The research question and purpose relate to how ACAP and DCAP can aid innovation development teams in reaching their goals and what role social integration mechanisms play in this process. We develop a theoretical framework in which we synthesize existing literature and through which we analyzed the empirical data. We follow a qualitative method and employ a single case strategy that fits our empirical data and allows to gain an understanding of social dynamics underlying knowledge transfer. The data was collected through interviews in the R&D department of Atlas Copco, a large Swedish multinational corporation that operates in the mining and tunneling industry. From our analysis we conclude that social integration mechanisms can be used in order to lower the gap between potential and realized capacities. This can in turn lead to a higher innovative output of teams.

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Chen, I.-han, et 陳昱翰. « The Effects of Absorptive Capacity on Innovative Performance from Network Relationship Perspective – Knowledge Characteristics and Knowledge Integration Mechanisms as Moderators ». Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30839346217325328571.

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國立屏東商業技術學院
經營管理研究所
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Facing external environment vicissitude and the competition, the enterprise must unceasingly study new knowledge to do for the growth power, taking advantage of this to promote the organization competitive ability. The cooperation is promotes the competitive ability one way, therefore many enterprises affiliations form the special network relations by each other cooperation. In this network, the enterprise may mutually provide the information and share the resources; thereupon the enterprise obtains and assimilates advantageous knowledge and then creates more values by studying and using the knowledge to promote organizational achievements in innovation performance. However, external knowledge may not easily study and understand in short time, it needs organization’s internal members to share and integrate their knowledge each other for creating the greater additional value. This research is from network relations viewpoint, discussing the effects of absorptive capacity on innovation performance. Moreover, knowledge characteristics can affect the result of organizational absorptive capacity; and knowledge integration mechanism is helpful to absorptive capacity implements the knowledge transformation. Therefore, this research investigates the influences of network relationship, absorptive capacity and innovation performance with high tech industry in our country by the questionnaire. Furthermore, the research joins the knowledge characteristics and knowledge integration mechanisms to discusse the result of knowledge transformation. The research result indicates that, (1) Network relationship is helpful promotion to absorptive capacity. (2) Knowledge characteristics can affect the result of absorptive capacity transfering knowledge. (3) Knowledge integration mechanisms can affect the result of absorptive capacity transfering knowledge, but the result doesn’t conform to expect of this research. (4) Absorptive capacity is helpful promotion to the innovation permance.

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Chen, Ren-Long, et 陳仁龍. « An Empirical Study on the Relationships among Structural Capital, Absorptive Capacity, Knowledge Integration, and Organizational Innovation Capability - The Case of Enterprises within Incubation Centers ». Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/69187052127851718084.

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國立高雄應用科技大學
人力資源發展系碩士班
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Abstract The small and medium enterprises of Taiwan need to assimilate and use new knowledge to maintain the competitive capability that can solve the problems, such as lack of manpower, and R&D technology. Knowledge is the most important strategic resource of the organizations, innovative products and processes depends on absorptive capacity and management to integrate specialized knowledge. Under the competitive pressure, the enterprises within Incubation Centers have to drive the innovation by using knowledge and resource. Thus, the paper tends to study the enterprises within Incubation Centers how to use the absorptive capacity and knowledge integration to promote the organizational innovation capability. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among structural capital, absorptive capacity, knowledge integration, and organizational innovation capability. One hundred and sixteen effective surveys were received by the enterprises within Incubation Centers. The data was analyzed by factor analysis, reliability analysis, structural equation model, and variance analysis to measure the relationship among the constructs. Results showed that structural capital has a positive influence on absorptive capacity and knowledge integration. Structural capital is not a significant influence on organizational innovation capability. Absorptive capacity and knowledge integration has a positive influence on organizational innovation capability. The mediating effects of absorptive capacity and knowledge integration towards structural capital can positively influence on organizational innovation capability, and the mediating effects of knowledge integration towards absorptive capacity can positively influence on organizational innovation capability. As a result it is suggested that the enterprises cultivate absorptive capacity and knowledge integration to improve the organizational innovation capability with knowledge.

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Chen, Chih-Chiang, et 陳志強. « A Study on the Relationships among Knowledge Sharing、Knowledge Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Innovation Capability ». Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41440437548702423988.

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國防管理學院
資源管理研究所
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This research studies the roles of knowledge absorptive capacity and knowledge sharing in the process of developing the innovation capability of knowledge-intensive industries. The LISREL model of the relationships among knowledge absorption, knowledge sharing and innovation capability is constructed based on the data sampled from 17 Taiwan cross-sectional corporations and received 355 valid questionnaires. The results indicate that the knowledge absorptive capacity is the intervening factor between knowledge sharing and innovation capability. It also shows that knowledge sharing has a positive effect on knowledge absorptive capacity and the completely mediating model can be used to the other industry of this paper because it has property of model generalization and model extension.

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Ruei-ChiLin et 林瑞琪. « The Influence on Innovation Performance of Knowledge Absorptive Capacity-Social Cognitive Perspective ». Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97472500257013722722.

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國立成功大學
企業管理學系碩博士班
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This study investigates the influence on innovation performance of knowledge absorptive capacity in the social cognitive perspective. In addition, the study also examines the effect of knowledge sharing culture and network centrality for the knowledge absorptive capacity and innovation performance. Based on literature review, fourteen hypotheses are developed to address the inter-relationships between dimensions. One pair of questionnaire is also designed and sends to the technology corporations in Taiwan. All hypotheses are tested with regression analysis and the conceptual model fitness is tested with the structure equation model. Fourteen hypotheses are all supported. Generally, the testing results present that the knowledge absorptive capacity, knowledge sharing culture, and knowledge network centrality are all positively related to the innovation performance. Furthermore, knowledge sharing culture and knowledge network centrality affect knowledge absorptive capacity in the positive way. This research contributes to the field of social cognitive theory by providing an empirically research explores the inter-relationships between environment, people, and behavior. It identifies the relationships of knowledge absorptive capacity, innovation performance, knowledge network centrality, and knowledge sharing culture. The result serves for managers as a guide to develop a knowledge-friendly organization which possesses excellent innovation performance.

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Yao-DePeng et 彭耀德. « Technology Integration Mechanism, Knowledge Integration Mechanism, and Organizational Absorptive Capacity on New Product Development Performance ». Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06575815822680009832.

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國立成功大學
企業管理學系碩博士班
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With the rapid changes now occurring in the environment, traditional product innovation is insufficient to satisfy customer requirements. In order to provide new products that are more innovative and are suited to customer needs, enterprises have started to look for help from external partners. Consequently, determining a method by which to integrate technology and knowledge on both sides and to enhance knowledge absorption in the information sharing process has become more critical as firms launch new product development (NPD). Thus, this study combines corporate social capital (CSC), intellectual capital and absorptive capacity (ACAP) into a context, discussing the influence of internal/external resource integration on technology and knowledge integration mechanisms (TIM and KIM) and ACAP’s effect on NPD. 204 valid responses were collected. Both confirmatory factor analysis and the structural equation model were adopted for data analysis. The results of the data analysis indicated that structural capital and the shared culture of CSC positively affect TIM and KIM, while organizational capital was shown to have a positive influence on KIM. Moreover, TIM and KIM were shown to have a positive influence on ACAP, resulting in a further positive effect on NPD. Finally, this study suggests that firms have to establish interaction bases if they intend to utilize external knowledge to assist NPD. In addition, firms should offer a friendly environment to encourage employees to be more willing to contribute their knowledge.

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Chang, Yu-Chieh, et 張又介. « An integrated model of knowledge creation : IT innovation, absorptive capacity, and work overload ». Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bw9655.

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國立高雄第一科技大學
管理研究所
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How to facilitate knowledge creation from the perspective of innovation remains a problem. To address this, this study proposes an integrated model that combines three schools of knowledge creation: innovation school, learning school, and problem-solving school. Specifically, our model includes the following variables: absorptive capacity, work overload, information technology (IT) innovation, environmental uncertainty, and knowledge creation activity. The premise of our model is that a knowledge creation activity for IT is influenced by IT users’ innovative propensity, their absorptive capacity, and work overload. In addition, we posit that the above relationship is contingent upon environmental uncertainty. To assess the research model, we adopted a survey method, collecting 214 useful responses for final data analysis. Results demonstrated that SECI is affected by absorptive capacity directly, and by work overload indirectly through users’ propensity to innovate with IT. In addition, environmental uncertainty exerts moderating influences on the above relationships. Implications of this study for managers and researchers are offered. Future research directions are also outlined.

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Tsui, Kuang-An, et 崔廣安. « A Study on the Relationships among Knowledge Acquisition, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Capability ». Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99641980587190668471.

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淡江大學
管理科學研究所碩士班
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This study investigates the roles of knowledge absorptive capacity, knowledge acquisition and innovation capability in finance and manufacture industries. Based on the sample from 1000 manufacture and 100 financial industries in Taiwan and 362 valid questionnaires, we use structure equation model to confirm the relationships among absorptive capacity, knowledge acquisition and innovation capability. The results indicate that the absorptive capacity is the mediation between knowledge acquisition and innovation capability. It also proves that knowledge acquisition has positive effect on absorptive capacity. Furthermore, the full mediated model is the best model in two kinds of industries in this paper,. Finally, we use multi-group approach and found industry is a moderator between absorptive capacity and innovation capability.

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Hidayat, Nurul, et 譚亞. « The Influence of Knowledge Sharing, Absorptive Capacity, and Team Culture on Service Innovation Performance ». Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/a69y4k.

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中原大學
商學博士學位學程
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Abstract Innovation is an essential requirement for the company. To face the company''s current competition, the company must be able to transform into a more innovative company. The ability of corporate innovation is highly dependent on the company''s knowledge. To improve the performance of service innovation, companies need knowledge gained from knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, and team culture. Knowledge sharing activity is an essential element in knowledge management within a company. Knowledge sharing, therefore, creates opportunities to maximize the company''s ability to meet its needs and produce more efficient business solutions. Furthermore, to improve the competitive advantage required a good working environment to facilitate the absorptive process of each employee. Functional interaction between individuals in a team can further encourage companies to innovate in particular the performance of service innovation. This study focuses on the banking industry, especially Islamic banking. This study is directed to examine the effect of knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, and team culture on service innovation performance. The lack of research on knowledge management in the banking industry sector compared to other industries becomes an exciting thing to research the topic. Knowledge sharing of absorptive capacity, and the team culture is evidenced to have a significant influence on the service innovation performance. The research framework developed in this study was tested by perceptions taken from employees working in an Islamic banking company in Kalimantan or Borneo Province, Indonesia. The data were collected using survey method with a questionnaire. The survey responses submitted by respondents in this study indicate that the influence of knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity and team culture on service innovation performance shows positive and significant results. The main conclusion to be drawn from these findings is that to achieve high performance of service innovation, and the company must first develop knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity and instill a better team culture for employees within the company, which in turn can enhance competitive advantage and sustainability company. Keywords: knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, team culture, service innovation performance.

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Wang, Yu-Lin, et 王瑜琳. « The Relations among Technical Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Absorptive Capacity, and Product Innovation in Small and Medium Enterprises ». Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/94845301735708278937.

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國立交通大學
管理科學系
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Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have made important contributions to Taiwan’s economy. However, because SMEs are relatively limited in resources, their product innovation may be limited. The purpose of this research was to investigate the relation among SMEs’ technical knowledge acquisition, the knowledge absorption and their product innovation. We take Taiwan bike industry as a source of sampling, using case study and questionnaire survey to collect qualitative and quantitative data. Technical knowledge acquisition is measured by knowledge collection activities and diversity of knowledge sources. Knowledge collection activities are further divided into knowledge released from basic science research and knowledge released from industry. Product innovation is measured by manager’s self-evalution of product and project performance. Knowledge absorptive capacity consists on knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation, knowledge transformation and knowledge exploitation. In the first study, we conducted in-depth interview with R&D staffs in Taiwan Industrial Research Institute and two Taiwan bike companies to get a glimpse of bike industry’s R&D activities in Taiwan. Based on the knowledge we acquired from the interview, a questionnaire was devised and mailed to 122 bike enterprises that have been engaged in product innovation. The return rate of the questionnaire was 39.8%. The results obtained from the 49 companies indicate that Taiwan SMEs’ product innovation can be predicted from knowledge collection activities, diversity of knowledge sources, knowledge released from basic science research, R&D spending, enterprise owner’s past technical experiences and knowledge absorptive capacity. Enterprise owner’s technical experiences contribute are also a major contribution factor to an organization’s knowledge absorptive capacity. Hence, SMEs’ organization learning seems to depend on enterprise owner’s technical experiences to a very large extent. The theoretical implications and suggestions further studies are discussed at the end of this thesis.

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Lo, Man Fung. « Knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, innovation capability and competitive advantage in Hong Kong higher education industry ». Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1315770.

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Professional Doctorate - Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Higher Education Insititutions (HEIs) in Hong Kong face a number of challenges in recent years. Prior studies argue that institutions can gain competitive advantage through effective knowledge sharing (KS) process. The aim of this dissertation is to contribute to the limited prior studies on KS in Hong Kong Higher Education (HE) sector. Based on an extensive review of literature, this study first sets out to investigate the impacts of indiviudal, organizational and technology factors on KS process. Secondly, this study attempts to address the relationships among KS process, absorptive capacity (ACAP) and innovation capability (INNOCAP). Furthermore, the association between INNOCAP and competitive advantage is examined. A research model with ten hypotheses was proposed. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted and 166 faculty members’ responses were received from eight University Grants Committee (UGC)-funded institutions in Hong Kong. This study applied Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) to examine the hypothesized relationships in the research model. The empirical results show that one individual factor (enjoyment in helping others) and one organizational factor (organizational culture) have significant positive relationships with KS behaviors. Moreover, another individual factor (knowledge self-efficacy) and the technology factor (use of information and communication technology (ICT)) were found to have positive associations with knowledge donating sub-process of KS behavior. In addition, the relationship between KS and INNOCAP must be mediated by ACAP. Another finding reveals that the higher the INNOCAP level, the greater is the competitive advantage. These findings provide useful insights to Hong Kong HE leaders and administrators in formulating knowledge management (KM) strategies or in reviewing their existing KM practices. The limitations and recommendations for further research are also discussed.

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Chang, Chun-Hong, et 張俊鴻. « The Relationships among Internal and External Knowledge, Absorptive Capacity and Innovation Performance：The Moderating Effects of Ambidexterity ». Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5gd8bk.

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國立中興大學
企業管理學系
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This study investigates the relationships among internal and external knowledge, absorptive capacity, ambidexterity and innovation performance with the knowledge-based view and absorptive capacity theory which is proposed by Zahra and George (2002). In order to explore the relationship between knowledge and absorptive capacity, we adopt the lens of absorptive capacity and, examined absorptive capacity (ACAP) as two dimensions—potential absorptive capacity (PACAP) and realized absorptive capacity (RACAP). This study examined the influences of external knowledge and internal knowledge on ACAP, including PACAP and RACAP, and further explored the moderating effect of internal knowledge and mediating effect of ACAP. Besides, in order to deeply understand the relationship between absorptive capacity and innovation performance, we examined that whether the ambidexterity moderates the relationship between absorptive capacity and innovation performance. The sample of this study is based on “Top 1000 manufactures and top 500 firms in service industry” published by Common Wealth 2013 in Taiwan. 1500 questionnaires were dispatched, and 221 valid questionnaires were collected, with the overall response rate 14.7%.. The empirical results of this study shows that (1) the external knowledge tacitness significantly has negative impact on ACAP, especially on PACAP ; external knowledge specificity has no significant impact on ACAP ; and external knowledge experience has significantly positive impact on ACAP, especially on RACAP. (2) the internal knowledge breadth has significantly positive impact on ACAP , especially on PACAP ; knowledge depth has significantly positive impact on ACAP, especially on RACAP. (3) the moderating effect of internal knowledge between external knowledge and ACAP isn’t significant. (4) ACAP has significantly positive significant impact on innovation performance. (5) the moderating effect of ambidexterity on the relationship between ACAP and innovation performance is significant.

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Shui-WenChen et 陳水文. « The Impact of Absorptive Capacity, Leadership Style and Organizational Climate on Knowledge Sharing and Service Innovation ». Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29571972783269752034.

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國立成功大學
高階管理碩士在職專班
98
On the knowledge economy era, rapid dissemination of information, shorter product life cycle and rising demand of customer are become important issues for enterprise. How to acquire, organize and assimilate new knowledge is a big challenge. An organization should be more efficiently in knowledge absorption through leadership and organizational climate to improve employee’s knowledge sharing intention and behavior. Finally it will enhance the competitiveness of enterprises. Take service advisor of T brand car for example, this study is to survey the impact, among organizational climate, leadership style, absorptive capacity, knowledge sharing intention, knowledge sharing behavior and service innovation. The total 550 questionnaires was sent, 410 valid ones were collected for this study. Research method includes factor analysis, T test, ANOVA, regression analysis to verification the results. The empirical results 1. Organizational climate, leadership style and absorptive capacity with a significant impact on knowledge sharing intentions. 2. Knowledge sharing intention with the significant impact on knowledge sharing behavior. 3. Knowledge sharing behavior with a significant impact on service innovation. 4. Different demographic variables, age and service years in all dimensions with significant differences.

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Wu, I.-Ling, et 吳憶伶. « The effects of knowledge transfer types, absorptive capacity, and organizational factors on the product/service innovation performance ». Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89733591323678812551.

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國立高雄師範大學
人力與知識管理研究所
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Based on previous research, this study examined the effects of absorptive capacity and organizational incentives on product/service innovation performance. In order to test the moderating effect of knowledge transfer type, we categorize the knowledge transfer into two categories: (1) internal knowledge transfer, and (2) external knowledge transfer. The samples of this research were collected from 1000 Top Enterprises by Common Wealth in 2006, aiming at traditional manufacturing industry, high-technology industry and service industry. On account of time and expense, 700 questionnaires were sent forward and the number of valid questionnaires returned was 184. Then the data from the questionnaires was analyzed and interpreted by statistic analyses. The results provide support a direct and positive link between absorptive capacity and product/service innovation performance as well as between organizational incentives and product/service innovation performance. The former is including potential absorptive capability and realized absorptive capability, while the latter is including structural variables and human resource variables. The findings also indicate that knowledge transfer type has partial significant moderation effect on the relations between absorptive capacity and product/service innovation performance as well as between organizational incentives and product/service innovation performance. The result of this research shows that realized absorptive capability, structural variables, and human resource variables influence on product/service innovation performance in internal knowledge transfer, while potential absorptive capability, realized absorptive capability, and human resource variables influence on product/service innovation performance in external knowledge transfer. Corporates can foster their environment depending on knowledge transfer type or choose proper knowledge transfer type depending on their background to promote product/service innovation performance.

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Tu, Chen-Ju, et 凃貞如. « The Effect of Relationship Capital on Knowledge Integration Capability and Organizational Innovation Performances- Absorptive Capability as a Moderator ». Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74333245709743019426.

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國立中興大學
企業管理學系所
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SMEs have been the majority in most Taiwan industries.It is thought that SMEs usually can not afford high risks and costs of R&D projects and tended to join research alliances with government research units or any possible solutions to reduce the total risks and costs. However, a firm’s critical resources may extend beyond firm boundaries and may be embedded in interfirm collaboration. R&D consortium which in the competitive era has become an important source for organizational innovation which is not only to reduces costs and risks but also a strategic and effective means to acquire complementary assets, create knowledge and transfer technology for SME in Taiwan. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of relationship capital on knowledge integration capability, and examine the relation between organizational innovation performances and knowledge integration. Also, this study incorporates absorptive capability as one moderator variables to strengthen the process of the organizational innovation performances. The research framework was empirically tested using a survey instrument given to 107 questionnaire responses from participants in ITRI-sponsored R&D consortia. Then we confirm the research hypothesis with descriptive statistical, Pearson correlation analysis, factor analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and structural equation modeling. The results show that relationship capital is positively related to knowledge integration capacity. Knowledge integration capacity positively affects the organizational innovation performances. The relationship between relationship capital and knowledge integration capability can be significantly and positively moderated by absorptive capability. Eventually, we discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our findings, along with limitations and directions for future research.

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Chi-Hsia, Hung, et 洪綺霞. « The effects of knowledge input, spillover and absorptive capacity on KIBS’s innovation performance - an example of Taiwan IC design industry ». Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00865648772755134654.

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東海大學
企業管理學系碩士班
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Taiwan IC design industry is one of the knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), and is the major developments of industry policy in Taiwan. And the sales of IC design company had grown from $7.3 to $42.3 billions during 1998 – 2006 year. Innovator is the very important advantage to keep the Taiwan IC design industry to be competitive in the world. Concerning to improve the innovation performance, there are three possible points from the discussion and analysis on related studys: knowledge input, knowledge spillover and knowledge absorptive capacity. Hence, this study investigates that the effects of knowledge input, knowledge spillover and knowledge absorptive capacity on innovation performance in Taiwan’s IC design industry. The research samples are the 88 IC design companies in Taiwan, and the research period is from 1997 to 2006. Patent data are from USPTO database. Through patent citation analysis and related statistics analysis, empirical findings are shown as follows. Knowledge spillover from Taiwan semiconductor industry is not proved to affect innovation performance of Taiwan IC design industry. Knowledge spillovers from semiconductor industry of other industry, other industry have significant and positive effect on innovation performance. Additionally, knowledge input and absorptive capacity affect positively innovation performance. Therefore, to improve knowledge input, knowledge spillover and knowledge absorptive capacity will be helped to enhance innovation performance in the IC design company.

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Shih-YaChen et 陳詩雅. « The Impacts of Absorptive Capacity,Organizational Climateand Social Capital on Knowledge- Sharing Behavior and Service Innovation-using Financial Industry as an Example ». Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95502097247708222621.

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國立成功大學
高階管理碩士在職專班
98
The global financial tsunami restructured the domain of the financial . "Big company" does not mean that it will not fail forever,although taiwan's financial industry had not been seriously affected in this incident,but the industry is facing a "over-banking"、" less-profit " situation. In order to increase profits and enhance competitiveness in the future, companies are bound to layout a regional、globalizational and international development.The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed,the mainland-market is a new opportunity for taiwan’s financial industry,also the southeast asia market and other emerging markets that its profits can not be ignored. Even though there are full of business opportunities in new markets,it will also have a the big challenge.In order to expand from Taiwan,develop new markets, companies must be posting and stronger.However, to be a successful company that knowledge is the key point. Taiwan has successful financial-developing experiences and accumulated -knowledge resources in these several years. If they can be transferred and transmited by knowledge–sharing in new markets,it can help companies to develope service innovation and enable to reach international goals.Therefore,for the managers of financial company how to establish a effective knowledge-sharing mechanism and induce knowledge-sharikng intentions of employees spontaneously are urgently necessary.This study is using financial industry as an sample, and researching if the absorptive capacity, organizational climate and social capital of a company will impact on its knowledge- sharing and service innovation . There are 350 copies of questionnaires and using many statistical methods such as factor analysis, reliability analysis,regression analysis, and analysis of overall model fit , to verify the results are as follows： 1.Absorptive capacity has positive and significant effects on knowledge-sharing intention. 2.Organizational climate has positive and significant effects on knowledge-sharing intention. 3.Social capital has positive and significant effects on knowledge-sharing intention. 4. knowledge-sharing intention has positive and significant effects on knowledge-sharing behavior. 5.Knowledge-sharing behavior has positive and significant effects on service innovation. 6.Knowledge-sharing intention through the mediation of knowledge-sharing behavior has positive and significant effects on service innovation. 7.Different demographic variables have significantly different results in the absorptive capacity,organizational climate,social capital,knowledge-sharing intention, knowledge-sharing behavior and service innovation of a company.

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Kuo, Po-Heng, et 郭柏亨. « An Empirical Study on the Social Capital and Organizational Innovation of High-Tech Industry：The Mediating Effects of Knowledge Sharing and Absorptive Capacity ». Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19852939407578440341.

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國立高雄應用科技大學
人力資源發展系碩士班
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In order to survive in the highly competitive times, firms are under constant pressure to innovate to stay ahead of their competition. Particularly in the high-tech industry, corporations must rely on R&D unit developing the new product continuously in the rapidly changing environment. If the high-tech industry should improve organizational innovation effectively, need to pay attention to it in the relation topic of the social capital. Meanwhile, there are good Interaction, and common goal each other in the high-tech industry of internal R&D unit . It's working and raising organizational innovation that could share knowledge and absorb internal knowledge. Therefore, The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship among the social capital, knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, organizational innovation of high-tech industry. This Research aims to examine the relationships of social capital, knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, organizational innovation among the firms in high-tech industry of Taiwan. 135 effective surveys were received by research and development manager of High-tech firms. The data was analyzed by factor analysis, reliability analysis, canonical analysis, ANOVA, using the LISREL model to measure the relationship amongst the constructs. Results showed that the internal social capital has a positive influence on the knowledge sharing and organizational innovation. Social capital and knowledge sharing has a positive influence on the absorptive capacity. However, knowledge sharing is not a significant influence on organizational innovation. The mediating effects of social capital and knowledge sharing towards the absorptive capacity can positively influence organizational innovation. Based on the result, it is suggested that businesses should invest in social capital, create more collective knowledge, and strengthen internal knowledge absorb capacity to promote organizational innovation.

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Sood, Hitu. « Exploring Open Innovation in the Biotechnology Industry : A Qualitative Study ». Thesis, 2020. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/41807/.

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Open Innovation (OI) is a new paradigm in innovation suitable for organisations characterised by Research and Development (R&D), and for organisations that are global and operating in high- technology industries. Although exceedingly relevant to Australian businesses due to the location challenge faced by Australia, to date OI is only sparsely researched in the Australian context. The majority of research published on OI is in the European or American context. This qualitative case study therefore, investigated OI in the Victorian Biotechnology Industry, which meets the characteristics of organisations suitable for OI. The aim of this research is to understand the micro-foundations of OI and its implications from individual managers’ perspective in Biotechnology organisations; and to explore how organisations and individuals can manage these implications. The results of this study show how the implications of OI can be managed at an individual level and also at, the organisational level without heavy investment or major changes. Applying the lens of Knowledge Based Theory of the firm, this research examines the perspectives of various stakeholders on OI in the Biotechnology industry. This research explored individual managers’ interpretation of the OI phenomenon based on their overall experience of OI in their organisations. The interpretivist paradigm enabled an understanding into the reality of the phenomenon as seen by the practitioners of OI. It allowed the Researcher to search for patterns of meaning while describing meanings that the managers assigned to OI; their view of the implications of being open for innovation, and examining how OI was managed in their organisations. The data for this study was collected based on the considerations of theoretical saturation which was achieved from eight Biotechnology organisations in the state of Victoria in Australia. A total of twenty interviews were conducted with ten participants from the eight Biotechnology organisations. In addition, for triangulation, six interviews with five participants from: a Contract Research Organisation (CRO), a premier Australian Research Institute (RI), and an Industry Body (IB) for the Biotechnology industry were conducted. By including a variety of stakeholders from the industry this research is able to present a holistic picture of OI in the Victorian Biotechnology industry. Although a small sample, saturation of information was reached from the rich data that emanated from the semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents collected, and from information posted on websites. The data set was so rich that issues of validity and reliability were easily justified from the analysed data. Literature on OI has suggested that one of the implications of OI is that it requires considerable changes in the policies, processes and systems of organisations. The findings of this research suggest that the nature of the Biotechnology industry is such that it is knowledge intensive, participates in R&D, is technology based, and adopts OI without much effort in change management. OI was viewed as ingrained in the nature of scientific work and not an entirely novel phenomenon within the Biotechnology industry in Victoria. The Biotechnology firms investigated did not have to incorporate any major changes to realise OI, nor required implementing any specific systems, processes or procedures for the management of OI. Consequently, the changes experienced by individuals in these organisations for OI were minimal. The findings of this research, vary from earlier studies on OI in the American and European context that suggest that there are considerable implications due to the ‘not-invented-here’ syndrome. This research instead suggests that there are other implications that need more attention. For the Biotechnology organisations in this research OI promoted greater learning, improved staff morale and more team work. OI also required individuals to balance diverse stakeholder demands, learn better time management and communication, be more open to change as well as overcome ego, fear and distrust while attempting to form external partnerships. Additionally, these research findings suggest that entrepreneurial thinking, team work and cross-disciplinary knowledge are major enablers for OI in organisations. The findings on the implications of OI in terms of the benefits and challenges highlight the dichotomy of saving time and money due to OI while also facing the challenge of risking time and money when working with external partners. To realise the benefits of OI these organisations had to harness the advantages of opposing forces such as: revealing and being open, efficiency and innovation, hierarchy and networks, teamwork and individual accountability, maintaining cost control and ensuring quality, as well as a centralised vision with decentralised autonomy. For individuals in the Biotechnology organisations this meant dealing with these paradoxes. The findings highlight that at an individual level OI can lead to a struggle to manage timelines and resource constraints while striving for quality; learning to balance between disclosure and discretion when interacting with external partners; retrieving internal knowledge while gaining new knowledge; working collaboratively internally and externally while being individually responsible. The findings of this study suggest that OI increasingly requires knowledge exchange while contending with dualities and paradox at both individual and organisational level. Importantly this research highlights that Organisational Fluidity and Agility enables balancing and managing these dualities and paradox. The characteristics of Organisational Fluidity and Agility such as: porous boundaries, fluidity in processes and systems, resource mobility and temporary project teams are useful for OI as determined from the Biotechnology organisations. As these organisations were also Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that are generally known to be responsive and flexible, it is deemed that the overall agility and fluidity of these organisations further provided on-going support for OI. This research confirms that OI was facilitated in these Biotechnology SMEs due to their Organisational Fluidity and Agility at an individual and organisational level. At the individual level, Organisational Fluidity and Agility was supported through the use of flexible processes, systems, roles and responsibilities. This allowed employees to better handle the dual demands placed on their time, knowledge and skills for OI. The contribution this study makes is that OI is closely linked to Organisational Agility and Fluidity, both at the individual and organisational levels. Organisations do not necessarily need to undergo major transformation to gain the benefits of OI. The characteristics of agile and flexible organisations (such as: porous boundaries, fluidity in processes & systems, resource mobility and temporary project teams) appear to facilitate OI in the Biotechnology industry. At the individual level, individuals in Biotechnology SMEs are orientated towards collaboration (internally and externally) due to their scientific training and overall nature of knowledge intensive drug development process. Additionally, the small size and resource constraints of these Biotechnology organisations is the reason for individuals to adopt a more collaborative attitude towards innovation to stay ahead of competition. However, these findings are from one industry compromising of SMEs. Future research is required to explore these findings in other industries.

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Chenguang, Wang. « Knowledge transfer and service innovation performance : the case of small and medium consulting enterprises in China ». Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/24930.

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This thesis takes Chinese small and medium management consulting companies as the research object, and puts forward research questions on the relationship between knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and service innovation performance. Through two rounds of questionnaire surveys, 688 valid data are obtained. The main research conclusions are: (1) Construct a theoretical framework of the relationship between knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and service innovation performance. The specific hypotheses proposed in this thesis are: the hypothesis of a positive relationship between knowledge transfer and service innovation performance; the hypothesis of a positive relationship between absorptive capacity and service innovation performance; the hypothesis of a positive relationship between knowledge transfer and absorptive capacity; the hypothesis of the mediating role of absorptive capacity between knowledge transfer and service innovation performance. (2) The theoretical hypotheses proposed in this thesis are verified from the statistical analysis of large samples. This thesis mainly uses statistical software such as SPSS24.0 and AMOS24.0 to conduct empirical analysis on the data; it mainly uses descriptive statistical analysis, reliability and validity analysis, correlation analysis, analysis of variance and structural equation models to verify the hypotheses of the relationship between knowledge transfer, absorptive capacity and service innovation performance. It is found that 23 of the 28 research hypotheses in this thesis pass the significance test and the model has a high degree of fit, so the hypotheses are supported by the data. (3) The theoretical hypotheses proposed in this thesis are supported from the case study. This thesis selects three small and medium management consulting companies of different business types as the analysis objects.
O objeto de pesquisa desta tese são as pequenas e médias empresas de consultadoria chinesas e estuda as relações entre a transferência de conhecimento, a capacidade de absorção e o desempenho de inovação em serviços. O questionário foi administrado em duas voltas e obtiveram-se 688 dados válidos. As principais conclusões da pesquisa são as seguintes: (1) A construção de uma estrutura teórica das relações entre transferência de conhecimento, capacidade de absorção e desempenho de inovação em serviços. As hipóteses específicas propostas nesta tese foram as seguintes: (i) hipótese 1: existe uma relação positiva entre transferência de conhecimento e o desempenho da inovação em serviços; (ii) hipótese 2: existe uma relação positiva entre capacidade de absorção e desempenho da inovação em serviços, (iii) existe uma relação positiva entre transferência de conhecimento e capacidade de absorção e (iv) capacidade de absorção desempenha um papel mediador entre a transferência de conhecimento e o desempenho da inovação em serviços. (2) As hipóteses teóricas propostas nesta tese foram verificadas a partir da análise estatística de grandes amostras. Esta tese utiliza principalmente software estatístico como o SPSS24.0 e o AMOS24.0 para realizar análises empíricas dos dados; utiliza principalmente análise estatística descritiva, análise de confiabilidade e validade, análise de correlação, análise de variância e modelos de equações estruturais para verificar as hipóteses das relações entre transferência de conhecimento, capacidade de absorção e desempenho da inovação em serviços. Verifica-se que 23 das 28 hipóteses de pesquisa nesta tese passam no teste de significância e o modelo possui um alto grau de ajustamento, isto é, as hipóteses não foram rejeitadas. (3) As hipóteses teóricas propostas nesta tese foram validadas com um estudo de casos múltiplos. Esta tese selecionou três pequenas e médias empresas de consultoria em gestão, com diferentes tipos de negócios, como objeto de análise.

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Gignac, Pierre. « Proposition de reconceptualisation du construit de capacité d’absorption : la capacité d’absorption actualisée ». Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21123.

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