DEMYSTIFYING ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: FOCUS ON FIRM SIZE AND EMPLOYEE EMPOWERMENT

Radoslaw Nowak ()
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Radoslaw Nowak: School of Management, New York Institute of Technology, 1855 Broadway, New York, NY 10023-7692, USA

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2017, vol. 21, issue 06, 1-19

Abstract: This project investigates the impact of contextual factors on the relationship between potential and realised absorptive capacity. The paper proposes that a firm’s size negatively affects this relationship, thus hindering the firm’s ability to create and exploit new knowledge. Nonetheless, as the paper posits, large firms can alleviate this negative effect of size by increasing a level of employee empowerment. The empirical analysis, based on the data collected from over 370 employees at 71 hospitals located in the United States, confirms main assumptions of the proposed model. The study considers key implications for strategy research as well as for managerial practices.

Keywords: Knowledge exploitation; innovative capabilities; absorptive capacity; employee empowerment; firm size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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