Capacité d'absorption des entreprises de l'open source: du modèle d'affaires à l'intention d'affaires

Khaireddine Mouakhar and Nordine Benkeltoum ()
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Khaireddine Mouakhar: Métis Lab EM Normandie - EM Normandie - École de Management de Normandie = EM Normandie Business School
Nordine Benkeltoum: Centrale Lille

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Abstract: Absorptive capacity is a firm's ability to identify, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge for value creation. The information systems literature has shown its critical role to create competitive advantages. This research studies the relationship between external environment exposure and the ability to create value based on external information. It re-examines the foundations of absorptive capacity through the business model framework. This research analyses absorptive capacity of 71 firms operating in a weak appropriability sector (open source). Using a mixed methods research setting, it models how companies create and strategically maintain their absorptive capacity. The contribution of this article is twofold. First, it shows that firms that claim interacting the most with communities have a high probability to have a low absorptive capacity. Conversely, firms that pretend interacting the least with their environment have a high probability to have a high absorptive capacity. Secondly, this research argues that firm absorptive capacity is mainly explained by the intention that motivate environment interaction.

Keywords: Absortive capacity; Business model; Open source; Intention; Mixed methods research; Capacité d'absorption; Modèle d'affaires; Méthode mixte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-06-04
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Published in Systèmes d'Information et Management, 2020, Volume 25 (1), pp.47-88. ⟨10.3917/sim.201.0047⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/sim.201.0047

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