Knowledge absorptive capacity and innovation performance in high-tech companies: A multi-mediating analysis

By Xuemei Xie, Hailiang Zou, G. Qi. Journal of business research, 2018

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Abstract Building upon the knowledge-based view (KBV) and using data from 379 high-tech companies in China, we examine the underlying, mediating mechanisms in the relationship between knowledge absorptive capacity and firms' innovation performance. We find that there are positive relationships between four dimensions of knowledge absorptive capacity (i.e., knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation, knowledge transformation, and knowledge exploitation) and firms' innovation performance. Additionally, we discover that both firms' knowledge transformation capacity and knowledge exploitation capacity mediate the relationship between knowledge acquisition and firms' innovation performance, as well as between knowledge assimilation and firms' innovation performance. Our results shed light on knowledge absorptive capacity research and knowledge management theory by theoretically and empirically demonstrating how knowledge absorptive capacity affects firms' innovation outputs from a multi-mediating perspective.

Subfields: Communication, Strategy and Management

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• The Linear and Non-Linear Effects of Internal Control and Its Five Components on Corporate Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Firms Using the COSO Framework (2020, background): “Xie et al. (2018) use a knowledge-based view to show that the knowledge absorptive capacity of Chinese high-tech firms contributes to their innovation outputs.”