Exploration and exploitation have opposite natures; therefore, balancing the two presents a key challenge for firms. Recent studies have argued that firms can combine exploration (exploitation) capabilities with exploitation (exploration) partnerships to surmount this obstacle. However, little...

Wide-spread research demonstrates that frms which promote entrepreneurship are dynamic, fexible organisations which tend to realise greater innovation. The entrepreneurial orientation (EO)-frm performance relationship and its contingency factors remain an unresolved area of research in the...

Purpose - This study aims to evaluate the effect of diversity of knowledge and intrinsic motivation on individual absorptive capacity, its effect on innovative behavior at work, as well as the moderating effect of autonomy at work. Design/methodology/approach - Data collection was carried out at...

Firms' innovation positively affects their competitiveness and thus their financial performance. To bridge the research gap in the theoretical framework of dynamic capabilities and respond to the call for papers to explore new ways of analyzing innovation in family businesses, this study...

There is increasing awareness that customers and suppliers serve as key external information sources for the innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, existing research on the influence of customer participation (CP) and supplier participation (SP) remains inconsistent....

Do technologies embedded in imports boost domestic productivity? This paper investigates empirically the role of complementarities between absorptive capacity and imports. Different import categories are combined with different proxies for absorptive capacity. The database covers 18...

Dynamic capabilities are a major driver of strategic entry into new industries. Building on the dynamic capabilities approach and on strategy literature, I develop a model for strategists' assessment of entry. I examine two specific dynamic capabilities, namely absorptive capacity and new...

In strategic and radical innovation, the degree of uncertainty and the amount of complexity is much higher compared to 'business as usual'. Therefore, idea management systems are often used to support such innovation processes. An interesting question is what we can learn from studying data in...

This study investigates the relationship between Absorptive Capacity (AC) and Knowledge Appropriation (KA), two significant domains in technology transfer, knowledge management, and innovation. While there is an inherent connection between these fields, there remains a gap in understanding their...

Given the ever-changing world of technological advances, and due to the fact that business entities strive for efficiency and cost reduction, open innovation (OI) has become the focus of academic and scholarly discussions. Furthermore, to increase their competitiveness, small and medium...

Green inclusive leadership can produce positive outcomes for green innovation and green sustainability in all sectors. However, academic research on green creativity and green inclusive leadership is limited in the literature. Therefore, this study theorised a conceptual model based on the...

This article analyses the impact of the European integration process on the Western Balkans; which process is assumed not only as an instrument for economic convergence and growth but additionally as an instrument for peace, security, and political reconciliation of the region. In addition, the...

This study explores the impact of green transformational leadership and environmental strategies on promoting green innovation in manufacturing firms in Pakistan. It examines how such leadership and its strategies encourage employees to foster green innovation through effective knowledge-sharing...

The aim of our paper is to examine the role of different types of local absorptive capacity in moderating the relation between inward FDI spillovers and regional innovation. We use data on the investments of multinational companies (MNCs) in Brazilian regions from 2003 to 2014, linking them to...

Under what conditions do originators of innovation benefit from knowledge spillover by learning from knowledge recipients, and when do they not? This study examines how originator firms' learning from recipients differs depending on their spillover characteristics. These characteristics were...