Understanding organizational resilience in a platform-based sharing business: The role of absorptive capacity

This study aims to examine the role of the absorptive capacity dimension in improving innovation performance and small business performance. The sample used as many as 35 businesses in the business sector of handy crafts. The collected data were analyzed using path analysis and processed with SPSS software version 24.0. The results showed that all hypotheses were accepted. The absorptive capacity dimension consists of potential absorptive capacity and absorptive capacity, both of which are able to have a positive influence on the performance of innovation and the performance of small businesses. But realized absorptive capacity can have a greater influence on innovation and small business performance than potential absorptive capacity.

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Building organizational resilience through human capital management strategy

Development in Learning Organizations An International Journal ◽

10.1108/dlo-08-2020-0180 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Stephanie Douglas

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Management Strategy ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Organizational Level ◽

Organizational Resilience ◽

Capital Management ◽

Human Capital Management ◽

Capability Development ◽

Content Type

Purpose This paper examines the role of human capital management strategy in shaping organizational resilience. Resilient organizations thrive in uncertain and adverse conditions. The organization’s capacity for resilience can be developed through human capital management strategies that are focused on employee capabilities, training, and development. When individual capabilities and resilience are developed, those can be aggregated at an organizational level to develop the capacity in an organization for resilience. Design/methodology/approach A review of relevant studies and literature was conducted to develop strategies and insight into developing the human capital of an organization to support organizational resilience. Findings Supporting individual capability development and resilience builds the organization’s capacity for resilience. By shifting human capital management strategies to building capabilities and then skills, organizations develop individual resilience and then organizational resilience. The implications of how to build such human capital management strategies are presented. Originality/value This paper provides support and guidelines for building individual capability and resilience to enhance an organization’s resilience.

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The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity in the Relationship between Research Community Participation and Open Innovation

SHS Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/shsconf/202112408010 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 124 ◽

pp. 08010

Author(s):

Rabiah Eladwiah Abdul Rahim ◽

Nor’ashikin Ali ◽

Juraifa Jais

Keyword(s):

Community Participation ◽

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Research Community ◽

Management Support ◽

Top Management Support ◽

Mediating Role ◽

The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the factors influencing research community participation and open innovation through the mediating role of absorptive capacity from the lens of Resource Based View and Dynamic Capability perspectives. Based on a survey of 115 senior engineering faculties from three research universities in Malaysia, this study applies the Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to investigate the research model. The findings demonstrate that top management support has a major impact on research community participation. The findings also suggest that absorptive capacity mediates the association between research community participation and open innovation capability. This study provides a theoretical basis on the resources and capability that are pertinent for open innovation. From a practical perspective, the relationships among research community participation, absorptive capacity, and open innovation suggest how universities can promote research community participation and assess their absorptive capacity to achieve open innovation.

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Online Communities and Open Innovation

Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8468-3.ch035 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 652-666

Author(s):

Alberto Francesconi ◽

Riccardo Bonazzi ◽

Claudia Dossena

Keyword(s):

Solar System ◽

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Online Communities ◽

Open Innovation ◽

Online Community ◽

Software Tool ◽

Linear Process ◽

Innovation Approach

Online communities are becoming an important way to support firms towards an open innovation approach. However, knowledge shared in an online community represents only a potential for firm's innovation aims. The effectiveness of exploration and exploitation of this knowledge depends on firm's absorptive capacity. In this work the authors focus on the time an idea, shared within an online community, takes to be transformed from a ‘potential' into a ‘realized' innovation by a firm. In particular, conceiving knowledge as a trajectory across pole of attraction rather than a linear process, the authors develop a model inspired by the solar system metaphor. Preliminary results from a case study are presented. They suggest firms may improve the effectiveness of absorptive capacity exploiting the mediation role of a software tool.

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