Talent Development and Its Role in Shaping Absorptive Capacity in Emerging Market Firms: The Case of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 444-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina O. Latukha
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Knowledge Assimilation ◽  
New Perspective

The Problem The overall ability to create and transfer knowledge is one of the main competitive advantages for companies from emerging economies and becomes their performance driver. As human resource development (HRD) and talent development (TD), in particular, aim to extend employees’ capabilities related to innovative thinking, creativity, and their key competences, which can be necessary for knowledge creation and development, TD can be associated with a firm’s absorptive capacity; however, their relationship remains underresearched. Although some studies claim about grounds for absorptive capacity, lack of analysis of absorptive capacity dimensions, specified as knowledge acquisition, assimilation, transformation, and exploitation, and its connection to TD in the emerging market context can be observed especially with the relationship to firm performance in Russia. The Solution We investigate the influence of TD on firm’s absorptive capacity in emerging market contexts, more specifically in Russia, and confirm the link between TD in Russia and knowledge assimilation, knowledge transformation, knowledge exploitation, and knowledge acquisition. The Stakeholders We show the new perspective of talent management, in general, and TD, in particular, for HRD area, showing the leading role of TD in emerging market contexts that should be in a primary agenda for both researchers and practitioners.

Challenges of Implementing Western Talent Development Models in a Collectivist Organizational Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Christina Lucas ◽  
Alexandre Ardichvili ◽  
Silvia Pereira de Castro Casa Nova ◽  
João Paulo Bittencourt ◽  
Caroline Carpenedo
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hrd Professionals

The Problem In Brazilian business organizations, talent development (TD) programs are often based on models borrowed from Western countries. However, there are significant cultural barriers to successful implementation of such transplanted models. Research on TD in Brazil is scarce, especially, research on adoption of imported models and frameworks. The Solution This article is based on a case study of TD practices of a large Brazilian steel company that has a long history of human resource development (HRD) and a unique organizational culture. Our study suggests that this Brazilian company’s TD system is based on a combination of several well-known North American models. However, the implementation of the TD system that is based on meritocratic principles does not fully align with an organizational culture characterized by high power distance, paternalism, collectivism, and the emphasis on personal relationships over merit. We suggest ways of addressing the identified misalignments and point out the necessity of tropicalizing the implementation of TD models, which implies embracing Brazilian cultural traits and contexts. The Stakeholders The main audience for this article includes executives, managers, and HRD professionals executing TD strategies in organizations from emerging market economies and/or in firms doing business in emerging markets. In addition, the article will be of interest to scholars specializing in international HRD and talent development.

scholarly journals Factors determining company performance in the IT industry

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Miruna Florina Lungu
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
It Industry ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Knowledge Exploitation ◽  
Knowledge Assimilation ◽  
Strategic Agility

AbstractThe dynamics of the business environment indicate that companies should become more flexible and value oriented. The competition within the IT sector leads to increased uncertainty for the players and a higher focus on the strategic direction of the company. Hence, many studies point out the significance of strategic agility as a tool of increasing company performance and achieving improved results. The paper highlights how the performance of IT companies is impacted by various factors. The main driver for company performance is strategic agility mixed with absorptive capacity. For a better understanding, the paper will analyze knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation, transformation and knowledge exploitation. These four dimensions represent the layers of absorptive capacity. Using as framework a survey developed based on the literature, there will be performed an analysis of the input received. The responses have been captured from stakeholders of the IT industry, who are employees of IT organizations with operations in Romania. For an enhanced output, there will be applied a regression analysis. This will contribute to the identification of factors determining company performance in the IT industry. The results of the regression analysis will demonstrate that strategic agility, knowledge acquisition and transformation have the highest impact on company performance. As only three out of the five tested dimensions are validated, further research can be grounded on understanding why knowledge assimilation and knowledge exploitation have not been confirmed as factors impacting company performance.

scholarly journals Absorptive capacity and mass customization capability

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (9) ◽  
pp. 1275-1294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Zhang ◽  
Xiande Zhao ◽  
Marjorie A. Lyles ◽  
Hangfei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Knowledge Application ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Assimilation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of a manufacturer’s absorptive capacity (AC) on its mass customization capability (MCC). Design/methodology/approach – The authors conceptualize AC within the supply chain context as four processes: knowledge acquisition from customers, knowledge acquisition from suppliers, knowledge assimilation, and knowledge application. The authors then propose and empirically test a model on the relationships among AC processes and MCC using structural equation modeling and data collected from 276 manufacturing firms in China. Findings – The results show that AC significantly improves MCC. In particular, knowledge sourced from customers and suppliers enhances MCC in three ways: directly, indirectly through knowledge application, and indirectly through knowledge assimilation and application. The study also finds that knowledge acquisition significantly enhances knowledge assimilation and knowledge application, and that knowledge assimilation leads to knowledge application. Originality/value – This study provides empirical evidence of the effects of AC processes on MCC. It also indicates the relationships among AC processes. Moreover, it reveals the mechanisms through which knowledge sourced from customers and suppliers contributes to MCC development, and demonstrates the importance of internal knowledge management practices in exploiting knowledge from supply chain partners. Furthermore, it provides guidelines for executives to decide how to manage supply chain knowledge and devote their efforts and resources in absorbing new knowledge for MCC development.

scholarly journals Systematic Analysis of Literature on the Marketing of Healthcare Systems. Challenges for Russian and Romanian Healthcare Systems

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 656
Author(s):  
Vladimir Bulatnikov ◽  
Cristinel Petrişor Constantin
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Systems ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Funds Allocation ◽  
New Perspective

This paper aims at finding the most dominant ideas about the marketing of healthcare systems highlighted in the mainstream literature, with a focus on Russia and Romania. To reach this goal, a systematic analysis of literature was conducted and various competitive advantages and disadvantages of the medical models that require special attention from the governments are considered. In this respect we examined 106 papers published during 2006 to 2020 found on four scientific databases. They were selected using inclusion and exclusion criteria according to PRISMA methodology. The main findings of the research consist of the opportunity to use marketing tools in order to improve the quality of healthcare systems in the named countries. Thus, using market orientation, the managers of healthcare systems could stimulate the innovation, the efficiency of funds allocation and the quality of medical services. The results will lead to a better quality of population life and to an increasing of life expectancy. As this paper reviews some articles from Russian literature, it can add a new perspective to the topic. These outcomes have implications for government, business environment, and academia, which should cooperate in order to develop the healthcare system using marketing strategies.

scholarly journals Effects of Emerging-Economy Firms’ Knowledge Acquisition from an Advanced International Joint Venture Partner on Their Financial Performance Based on the Open Innovation Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Choo Yeon Kim ◽  
Eun-Hwa Seo ◽  
Canisha Booranabanyat ◽  
Kwangsoo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Joint Venture ◽  
Emerging Economy ◽  
Innovation Performance ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
International Joint Venture ◽  
International Joint

Although emerging-economy firms (E-E firms) must have a keen interest in improving their performance by utilizing knowledge transferred from their advanced international joint venture (IJV) partner, there has been little research on the performance implications of E-E firms’ knowledge transferred from their advanced IJV partner. So, drawing on open innovation and organizational learning perspectives, we examine whether, how, and when E-E firms’ knowledge acquisition from their IJV partner has a positive impact on their financial performance. Based on data collected from 127 Thai manufacturing firms with a local IJV partnered with an advanced overseas firm, our results reveal that E-E firms’ knowledge acquisition from their IJV partner has an overall positive influence on their financial performance in terms of growth and profitability. Our results further show that innovation performance mediates the relationship between E-E firms’ knowledge acquisition and their financial performance based on a moderated mediation analysis including innovation performance as a mediator and absorptive capacity as a moderator. It is also found that the positive mediation effect of innovation performance is more pronounced in the presence of higher absorptive capacity than otherwise. That is, our results show that even among E-E firms which have acquired much knowledge from their IJV partner, those with higher absorptive capacity achieve better innovation performance than those with lower absorptive capacity, and improved innovation performance subsequently contributes to producing superior financial performance. The key conclusions, implications, and limitations of our study are presented based on these findings.

Talent Development in Emerging Economies Through Learning and Development Capacity Building

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Machuma Helen Muyia ◽  
Caroline S. Wekullo ◽  
Fredrick M. Nafukho
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Human Resource Development ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Development Capacity ◽  
The World

The Problem It has been argued correctly that of all the resources that nations are endowed with including physical resources such as land, gas, oil, mineral resources, and financial resources, the most durable resource is people. It is also a truism that regions endowed with large populations such as Brazil, China, and India are now emerging nations with very strong and growing economies. As the world of work changes globally, the demand for talent development is becoming one of the greatest opportunities for profit and nonprofit organizations in emerging economies such as Kenya. Africa with its young and educated population and its competition for talent poses both opportunities and challenges as the continent tries to address this critical component. Nowhere is this opportunity for talent development (TD) more urgent than in Kenya. The Solution Given the rising of Africa’s youth population and the need to develop talent in this region of the world, there is no easy or ready-made solution to guide human resource development (HRD) researchers and practitioners and policy makers in developing and optimally utilizing Africa’s best resource—its people. However, this article seeks to demonstrate how strategic planning and provision of quality education are the best form of intervention for TD in Africa. The fact that individuals have talent is not sufficient, hence the importance of developing talent through learning. Thus, learning requires well-designed quality education and training programs that can lead to people being open to new ideas and a disposition to question what people already know. This is even more seminal especially in the fast-changing technology-controlled workplace. The Stakeholders Human resource officers, learning and development officers, Directors of Human Resource Management, HRD researchers, HRD practitioners.

How firms accumulate knowledge to innovate – an empirical study of Vietnamese firms

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duy Quoc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Depth ◽  
Exploratory Innovation ◽  
External Knowledge Acquisition

PurposeOrganizational innovations are closely associated with organizational knowledge, and thus a firm builds its knowledge base to enhance its innovative performance. However, insights into this process are still limited, especially in the context of firms in developing countries. Building on the dynamic managerial capabilities literature and open innovation paradigm, this paper attempts to fill this gap by developing and empirically testing a model that investigates how firms in developing countries accumulate knowledge to innovate.Design/methodology/approachA model of a firm's knowledge accumulation and innovation is proposed in which it specifies relationships among absorptive capacity, knowledge breadth, research and development (R&D), knowledge depth, exploratory innovation and exploitative innovation, and then it is empirically tested by using the structural equation modeling (SEM) technique based on the surveyed data of Vietnamese firms.FindingsThe results indicate that absorptive capacity positively influences both knowledge breadth and knowledge depth, knowledge breadth positively influences R&D, R&D positively influences exploratory innovation and knowledge depth, and knowledge depth positively influences exploratory and exploitative innovation.Practical implicationsThe study proposes an “acquire and develop” open innovation model for firms in developing countries in which firms acquire external technologies and then develop R&D (develop and design) capability to adapt acquired technologies to their local conditions to create new organizational-specific capabilities and exploratory innovation.Originality/valueThis study argues that external knowledge acquisition is beneficial to innovative performance of firms in developing countries via renewing their knowledge base. Furthermore, the study provides the unique evidence that novel external knowledge acquisition and internal R&D are fit to each other in the fit-as-mediation form in which novel external knowledge acquisition is mediated by R&D to positively influence exploratory innovation.

Factors Affecting Knowledge Acquisition

2015 ◽  
pp. 235-258
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
International Joint Ventures ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Although there is a growing literature on knowledge management, limited attention has been paid to the factors that influence the process of knowledge acquisition. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to bring forward the main elements that may stimulate or inhibit knowledge acquisition at both the individual and organizational level. Knowledge acquisition is mainly affected by a company's absorptive capacity, organizational context and structure, and inter-firm alliances. These may increase the firm's awareness of the external challenges and stimulate inter-organizational interactions. The impact of each of these factors is highly visible in the context of international joint ventures. Still, in this case, another factor interferes, namely cultural specificity.

Strategic Networking Behavior of SMEs

2014 ◽  
pp. 372-397
Author(s):  
Maria Vasilska ◽  
Iliya Kereziev ◽  
Yordanka Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strategy Development ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Networking Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Strategic Networking ◽  
Gain Access

Strategic networking behavior of SMEs is an issue that has not yet been thoroughly studied in the context of emerging market economies in Eastern Europe. No doubt, through strategic networking, SMEs could gain access to valuable resources – information, know-how, technologies, finance, etc., needed for strategy development, and building and maintaining competitive advantages. In addition, the networking of Bulgarian firms operating in a limited domestic market can be viewed as a tool for gaining access to external markets. On the other hand, intensive collaboration and networking creates problems and challenges for the SMEs and places new requirements to their strategic management. Therefore, this chapter draws upon the data and results of three researches which investigated strategic networking behavior of Bulgarian SMEs in order to reveal the specific benefits and challenges of SMEs involved in networks and to examine the impact of networking activities on SMEs strategic development. Finally, recommendations for the strategic networking behavior of Eastern European SMEs are formulated with a view to improve their results from networking and hence their competitiveness.

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