Organizational Absorptive Capacity and Responsiveness: An Empirical Investigation of Growth–Oriented SMEs

By Jianwen Liao, Harold P. Welsch, Michael Stoica. 2003

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Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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Knowledge absorptive capacity: New insights for its conceptualization and measurement☆ (2010, background): “The studies (e.g., Arbussà and Coenders, 2007; George et al., 2001; Liao et al., 2003) that modify Cohen and Levinthal's definition alter its dimensionalization only slightly, and they do so by limiting the construct to two dimensions: the first, related to the evaluation, acquisition and assimilati”
Flexibility-Oriented HRM Systems, Absorptive Capacity, and Market Responsiveness and Firm Innovativeness (2013, background): “Liao et al. (2003) also find that for growthoriented firms, market responsiveness is more strongly associated with a firm’s capacity to acquire external knowledge than its capacity to disseminate internal knowledge.”
Learning by exporting: Lessons from high-technology SMEs (2013, background): “…internal R&D are better able to use externally gathered information (Freel, 2000), and that SMEs with higher levels of absorptive capacity tend to be more proactive in seeking external knowledge whilst those with more modest absorptive capacity will tend to be more reactive (Liao et al. 2003).”
Strategy development by SMEs for competitiveness: a review (2008, background): “SMEs can improve their responsiveness by developing capabilities in external knowledge acquisition (Liao et al., 2003).”
Exploring the role of proximity in SME knowledge-acquisition (2005, background): “There has been relatively little research reported on knowledge management and acquisition in SMEs (McAdam and Reid, 2001; Liao et al., 2003).”
Explaining the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in emerging economies: The intermediate roles of absorptive capacity and improvisation (2017, unknown): “, 2014) and should strengthen the EO–performance relationship (e.g., De Jong & Freel, 2010; Gray, 2006; Liao et al., 2003; Wales et al., 2013b) by enabling it to make better and more informed decisions while acting entrepreneurially.”
Innovation Management Measurement: A Review (2006, unknown): “At the level of the firm, Liao et al. (2003) introduce a similar construct – ‘organizational responsiveness’.”
Towards a process theory of entrepreneurial ecosystems (2018, background): “For example, it is not clear that new ventures benefit as much as their more established counterparts from knowledge spillovers due to their lower levels of absorptive capacity and internal capabilities (Liao et al., 2003).”