The relationship between knowledge search strategies and absorptive capacity: A deeper look

By José Luis Ferreras-Méndez, Anabel Fernández-Mesa, Joaquín Alegre. 2016

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Strategy and Management

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/634d204e95adb1d95a9ff3bcdb9ac7cce66af240

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In Business and International Management

1. Demetris Vrontis
2. Sarah Cooper
3. Sascha Kraus
4. Alfredo De Massis
5. Gabriele Santoro
6. Alkis Thrassou

In Strategy and Management

1. Demetris Vrontis
2. Alkis Thrassou
3. Luca Dezi
4. Johanna Gast
5. Gabriele Santoro
6. María Luisa Flor
7. Sarah Cooper
8. Mariangela Vecchiarini

Citations in the corpus

• External knowledge search, absorptive capacity and radical innovation in high-technology firms (2017, background): “…to literature on AC and learning, some works rely on the notion that AC is determined primarily by prior related knowledge, suggesting that OI represents an antecedent of a firm’s AC (e.g. Ferreras-Méndez et al., 2015; Ferreras-Méndez et al., 2016; Fosfuri & Tribó, 2008; Sun & Anderson, 2010).”
• The Internet of Things: Building a knowledge management system for open innovation and knowledge management capacity (2017, background): “Ferreras-Méndez et al. (2016), extending the absorptive capacity concept, investigate the effects of external sourcing strategies on explorative learning, transformative learning, and exploitative learning, to find that different search strategies exert different effects on different learning…”
• Innovation in Family Firms: A Systematic Literature Review and Guidance for Future Research (2018, background): “…as absorptive capacity (Spithoven et al. 2011), that FFs adopt to insource externally developed innovation, and how the acquired innovation is maintained over time (transformative learning) and used in the FF (exploitative learning or realized absorptive capacity) (Ferreras-Méndez et al. 2016).”
• Exploratory and exploitative innovation: To what extent do the dimensions of individual level absorptive capacity contribute? (2017, background): “…that individuals play a key role in open innovation (Salter, et al., 2014a, 2014b), most of the literature has focused on the organizational (e.g., Ferreras-Méndez et al., 2016; Heil and Enkel, 2015; Ritala and Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, 2013) rather than the individual level (Salter et al., 2014a).”