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Article: Absorbing Knowledge from and with External Partners: The Role of Social Integration Mechanisms

TitleAbsorbing Knowledge from and with External Partners: The Role of Social Integration Mechanisms
Authors
KeywordsAbsorptive Capacity
Collaboration
External Partners
Innovation
Knowledge Absorption
Issue Date2018
PublisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-5915
Citation
Decision Sciences, 2018, v. 50 n. 1, p. 7-45 How to Cite?
AbstractDynamic capabilities that enable innovation are crucial to survival and success in today's highly competitive business environment, because they enable organizational adaptation, transformation, and seizing of opportunities. Absorptive capacity is an important dynamic capability that enables organizations to leverage external knowledge for innovation purposes. In this theory‐building article, we address the fundamental research question of how organizations can leverage external partners as external sources of knowledge. We offer three primary contributions to the literature on managerial decision‐making. First, by conceptualizing knowledge absorption as a collaborative, interorganizational endeavor, we extend the literature on absorptive capacity, thereby enabling its application to innovation‐related contexts aside from R&D, to which it has traditionally been applied. Second, by focusing on social integration mechanisms as links between the capabilities, expertise, and knowledge of individuals, groups, and the organization as a whole, we heed calls to clarify the microfoundations of organizational capabilities. Third, although social integration is a multidimensional construct, few studies have addressed the influence of its individual dimensions. We outline how individual social integration dimensions exert differing influences on the individual knowledge absorption stages, thereby taking a first step toward unraveling the multidimensional nature of social integration and laying the foundation for future social integration research both in and beyond the absorptive capacity context.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/284505
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 2.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.145
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dc.contributor.authorvon Briel, F-
dc.contributor.authorSchneider, C-
dc.contributor.authorLowry, PB-
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-07T08:58:36Z-
dc.date.available2020-08-07T08:58:36Z-
dc.date.issued2018-
dc.identifier.citationDecision Sciences, 2018, v. 50 n. 1, p. 7-45-
dc.identifier.issn0011-7315-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/284505-
dc.description.abstractDynamic capabilities that enable innovation are crucial to survival and success in today's highly competitive business environment, because they enable organizational adaptation, transformation, and seizing of opportunities. Absorptive capacity is an important dynamic capability that enables organizations to leverage external knowledge for innovation purposes. In this theory‐building article, we address the fundamental research question of how organizations can leverage external partners as external sources of knowledge. We offer three primary contributions to the literature on managerial decision‐making. First, by conceptualizing knowledge absorption as a collaborative, interorganizational endeavor, we extend the literature on absorptive capacity, thereby enabling its application to innovation‐related contexts aside from R&D, to which it has traditionally been applied. Second, by focusing on social integration mechanisms as links between the capabilities, expertise, and knowledge of individuals, groups, and the organization as a whole, we heed calls to clarify the microfoundations of organizational capabilities. Third, although social integration is a multidimensional construct, few studies have addressed the influence of its individual dimensions. We outline how individual social integration dimensions exert differing influences on the individual knowledge absorption stages, thereby taking a first step toward unraveling the multidimensional nature of social integration and laying the foundation for future social integration research both in and beyond the absorptive capacity context.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1540-5915-
dc.relation.ispartofDecision Sciences-
dc.rightsPreprint This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. Postprint This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article using the DOI]. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.-
dc.subjectAbsorptive Capacity-
dc.subjectCollaboration-
dc.subjectExternal Partners-
dc.subjectInnovation-
dc.subjectKnowledge Absorption-
dc.titleAbsorbing Knowledge from and with External Partners: The Role of Social Integration Mechanisms-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailLowry, PB: pblowry@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityLowry, PB=rp02206-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/deci.12314-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85046338923-
dc.identifier.hkuros312349-
dc.identifier.volume50-
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.spage7-
dc.identifier.epage45-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000459164800001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited States-
dc.identifier.issnl0011-7315-

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