ABSORBING INTEGRATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL-/CROSS-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

2021 ◽  
pp. 437-473
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Functional Integration ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Role

ABSORBING INTEGRATION: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY BETWEEN FUNCTIONAL-/CROSS-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (06) ◽  
pp. 1950056
Author(s):  
JOHANN PIET HAUSBERG ◽  
PETER S. H. LEEFLANG
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Functional Integration ◽  
Substantial Effect ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Significance Levels ◽  
Integration Mechanisms ◽  
Italian Manufacturing Firms

Integration of organisational units has been extensively researched in various streams of management and organization sciences. It is very important whenever knowledge differences have to be overcome due to functional departmentalisation and the ensuing knowledge specialisation. However, extant literature does not yet appreciate the mediating role of absorptive capacity (AC) in this context. We argue that departments use integration mechanisms in order to develop and maintain such an organisational capability to absorb knowledge from other departments, so that integration can succeed to increase innovation performance. Our unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from various industries allows us to study this in the context of the integration of research and development (R&D) and marketing and sales (M&S) departments. Thereby, we provide empirical evidence on the mediating role of AC. We find evidence that R&D departments build AC via formal cross-functional integration, while M&S departments do so through informal integration. Moreover, we provide evidence of AC’s mediating role for the relationship between cross-functional integration mechanisms and innovation performance. Our findings also reveal significant differences between R&D and M&S functions in terms of effect sizes and significance levels. AC of R&D departments has a significant and substantial effect on innovation performance and thus effectively acts as a mediating variable, while in case of M&S departments we observe a significant direct effect between formal cross-functional integration and innovation performance without any mediation by AC.

Improving Tourism Innovation Performance: Linking Perspectives of Asset Specificity, Intellectual Capital, and Absorptive Capacity

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 908-930
Author(s):  
AiHua Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Asset Specificity ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Intermediate Level ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
Mediating Role

This study seeks to better understand the link of a tourism firm’s intellectual capital to innovation performance, empirically testing the mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating effect of asset specificity. Findings from 217 Chinese tourism firms indicate that absorptive capacity plays a mediating role in the capital–performance link, and the effect of social capital to absorptive capacity is highest when asset specificity is at an intermediate level, having an inverted “U” shape. The result indicates that the effect of the human capital is “U” shape with asset specificity. Thus, the findings make a few new important insights to the tourism innovation literature and also offer a number of vital implications for tourism managerial practices.

THE IMPACT OF IT ASSETS ON INNOVATION PERFORMANCE – THE MEDIATING ROLE OF DEVELOPMENTAL CULTURE AND ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (08) ◽  
pp. 1840011 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARIUS STOFFELS ◽  
JENS LEKER
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Water Industry ◽  
Mediation Effects ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Organisational Factors ◽  
The Impact

Information technology (IT) has been acknowledged as a driver of innovation performance and scholars agree that the impact of IT is mediated by additional organisational factors. Among those mediators between IT and innovation performance, a firm’s absorptive capacity and developmental culture received considerable attention. Empirical evidence suggests that both fully mediate the impact of IT on innovation performance; however, research that jointly considers both dimensions is scarce. Thus, we follow the resource-based view to operationalise IT assets, absorptive capacity, and developmental culture in one research model and apply SEM to test it with a sample of 58 firms from the water industry in Germany. We find simultaneous full mediation effects for both mediators. The fact that both mediation effects are significant in the presence of each other indicates that absorptive capacity and developmental culture explain complementary portions of the variance in innovation performance — a finding we relate to sociomateriality theory.

Knowledge sharing direction and innovation performance in organizations

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuliang Zhao ◽  
Yanhong Jiang ◽  
Xiaobao Peng ◽  
Jin Hong
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

PurposeBecause the mechanism of how knowledge sharing affects organizational innovation is still unclear, the study focuses on the relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational innovation performance, with a focus on mediating role of absorptive capacity and individual creativity.Design/methodology/approachOn the basis of the knowledge base view and organizational learning theory, the study propose a model to verify the impact of inbound and outbound knowledge sharing on organizational innovation performance based on previous research. It also analyzed how these effects were mediated by individual creativity and absorptive capacity. The study collected 166 samples to verify the theoretical model.FindingsResults corroborate that inbound knowledge sharing cannot directly promote organizational innovation performance, and absorptive capacity has a full mediation effect between inbound knowledge sharing and organizational innovation performance. Knowledge outbound sharing, individual creativity and absorptive capacity can improve innovation performance. In addition, absorptive capacity and individual creativity have direct and significant impacts on organizational innovation performance. Moreover, absorptive capacity plays a partial mediate role between individual creativity and innovation performance. Finally, this study discusses the policy implications of the study and describes possible future research directions.Originality/valueThe paper creatively divides knowledge sharing into inbound knowledge sharing and outbound knowledge sharing and verifies that knowledge sharing does not directly affect organizational innovation performance. The mediating role of absorptive capacity and individual creativity was analysis.

scholarly journals Ambidexterity in External Knowledge Search Strategies and Innovation Performance: Mediating Role of Balanced Innovation and Moderating Role of Absorptive Capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 5111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Choo Yeon Kim ◽  
Myung Sub Lim ◽  
Jae Wook Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Search Strategies ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Modes Of Innovation ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
External Knowledge Acquisition

The importance of external knowledge acquisition for innovation by firms is well established. In particular, there has been an increasing focus on the two distinct modes of firms’ external search strategies, which have a differential effect on their learning and innovation: search breadth and depth. By applying organizational ambidexterity lens, we hypothesize that pursuing high levels of both external search strategies is beneficial to achieve a balance between exploitative and explorative innovation, which, in turn, has a positive impact on the firm’s innovation performance. We also hypothesize that, even among the firms that maintain high levels of both search strategies, firms with higher absorptive capacity better achieve a balance between both modes of innovation, thereby producing higher performance. The findings on a multi-industry sample of Koran manufacturing firms confirm our hypotheses and imply that it is essential for firms to develop capabilities for different modes of external search activities in conjunction with internal absorptive capacity for superior innovation performance.

Causation, Effectuation, and Innovation Performance: The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 14963
Author(s):  
Christopher Steinert ◽  
Christian Landau ◽  
Nikolaus T. Uhlenbruck
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediating Role
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