Absorptive Capacity and Smart Library

2022 ◽  
pp. 310-326
Author(s):  
Adebowale Jeremy Adetayo
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Library Development ◽  
Web Of Knowledge

The current competitive environment is significantly modifying the libraries' learning processes due to an information explosion, allowing this to be transformed into knowledge. This opportunity has been exploited in the past by the tools of “business intelligence,” but integrating it into libraries is still a daunting task. Absorptive capacity was applied to smart libraries from Schöpel's multidimensional model's perspective. Literature was thoroughly reviewed from credible sources such as ISI Web of Knowledge and Scopus. The contribution to the literature is smart library development through absorptive capacity. This approach aims to create a library intelligence model that aims to explain the absorptive capacity process that leads to smart services, people, place, and governance. This chapter presents a unique integration of various concepts: the concept of absorptive capacity and smart library. This allows the development of better library practices by obtaining benefits from these investments and facilitating intelligence creation inside libraries.

How and why Organisations Use Social Media: Five Use Types and their Relation to Absorptive Capacity

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Schlagwein ◽  
Monica Hu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Trade Press ◽  
Consulting Companies

In this paper, we examine the relation between social media use and the absorptive capacity of organisations. Over the past 10 years, many organisations have systematically adopted social media. Trade press and consulting companies often claim that the systematic use of social media increases the performance of organisations. However, such claims are typically neither empirically grounded nor theoretically examined. In this paper, based on key informant interviews at 20 organisations, we examine these claims empirically and theoretically. Firstly, we examine the ways in which social media are used by organisations. We identify five different social media use types that support different organisational purposes (broadcast, dialogue, collaboration, knowledge management and sociability). Secondly, we analyse how these five social media use types relate to organisations' absorptive capacity. We find that particular social media use types (e.g., dialogue) support organisations' absorptive capacity and, ultimately, their performance although others (e.g., sociability) do not.

The changed paradigm of business progress: a moral step forward for humanity

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-193
Author(s):  
Joan Marques
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
First Century ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Business Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Through an overview of the perceptional evolution of progress over the past two centuries, this paper aims to review a changed, yet constructive paradigm that has emerged in business leadership. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a general review-based deliberation presenting standards of the twentieth century, the need for a shift in paradigms and the shift as it unfolds in the twenty-first century. Findings Focusing on optimal stakeholder inclusion, yet not disregarding the concept of progress in a competitive environment, this paper presents a set of interrelated leadership skills and characteristics, including a discussion about their applicability and ways to develop them. Research limitations/implications While globally applicable, the views in this paper are primarily based on the American performance environment. Practical implications Management practices would not have evolved to today’s level if we did not have the past experiences to learn from. The deliberations and insights shared in this article should be seen as a way of evaluating the path that led us to our current, multi-tiered leadership paradigm. Social implications The model presented in this article should be seen as a useful, yet incomplete set of skills and characteristics to be considered by today’s and future leaders to ensure greater stakeholder inclusion. Originality/value Within the framework of focusing on the management horizon, this paper places the driving motives of two centuries that influenced our current society alongside each other and contemplates on the necessary shifts needed to move forward.

Big Data, Knowledge, and Business Intelligence

2018 ◽  
pp. 943-950
Author(s):  
G. Scott Erickson ◽  
Helen N. Rothberg
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Business Analytics ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Knowledge management (KM), intellectual capital (IC), and competitive intelligence are distinct yet related fields that have endured and grown over the past two decades. KM and IC have always differentiated between the terms and concepts of data, information, knowledge, and wisdom/intelligence, suggesting value only comes from the more developed end of the range (knowledge and intelligence). But the advent of big data/business analytics has created new interest in the potential of data and information, by themselves, to create competitive advantage. This new attention provides opportunities for some exchange with more established theory. Big data gives direction for reinvigorating the more mature fields, providing new sources of inputs and new potential for analysis and use. Alternatively, big data/business analytics applications will undoubtedly run into common questions from KM/IC on appropriate tools and techniques for different environments, the best methods for handling the people issues of system adoption and use, and data/intelligence security.

scholarly journals Antecedents of absorptive capacity: a new model for developing learning processes

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rezaei-Zadeh ◽  
Tamer K Darwish
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Environmental Turbulence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Exploitative Learning ◽  
Modes Of Governance ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated framework to indicate which antecedents of absorptive capacity (AC) influence its learning processes, and to propose testing of this model in future work. Design/methodology/approach – Relevant literature into the antecedents of AC was critically reviewed and analysed with the objective of categorising and explaining the influence of AC on learning processes, including exploratory, transformative and exploitative learning. Findings – By considering the level of learning, the proposed model demonstrates that the antecedents of AC vary, comprising exploratory, transformative and exploitative learning processes. Moreover, this study reveals the complex interplay between the antecedents of AC. Research limitations/implications – The proposed model was developed theoretically, thus pending further empirical validation according to environmental turbulence, knowledge characteristics and modes of governance. This study also urges researchers to explore whether or not the antecedents of AC differ based on organisational outcomes. Practical implications – The model can be put into a testable template for use by researchers. It further guides managers in developing effective processes for learning to use external knowledge. Originality/value – It is the first work to schematically bring together and discuss the antecedents of AC and its influence on learning processes, and further provides a framework capable of facilitating the empirical testing of this nexus.

The Role of Organizational Absorptive Capacity in Strategic Use of Business Intelligence to Support Integrated Management Control Systems

2011 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Z. Elbashir ◽  
Philip A. Collier ◽  
Steve G. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Performance Management ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Management Control ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
External Information ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Strategic Integration ◽  
Management Concepts

ABSTRACT: This study examines the influence of organizational controls related to knowledge management and resource development on assimilation (i.e., strategic integration and use) of business intelligence (BI) systems. BI systems use analytics and performance management concepts to leverage enterprise system databases and provide core management control system (MCS) capability. Our results indicate that organizational absorptive capacity (i.e., the ability to gather, absorb, and strategically leverage new external information) is critical to establishing appropriate technology infrastructure and to assimilating BI systems for organizational benefit. Further, findings show that while top management plays a significant role in effective deployment of BI systems, their impact is indirect and a function of operational managers’ absorptive capacity. In particular, this indirect effect suggests that leveraging BI systems is driven from the bottom up as opposed to the top down. This differentiates BI from other isolated strategic MCS innovations that have traditionally been viewed as top-management driven.

Innovation with IS usage: individual absorptive capacity as a mediator

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (8) ◽  
pp. 1110-1130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiwei Wang ◽  
Luning Liu ◽  
Yuqiang Feng ◽  
Tienan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Is Implementation ◽  
Business Intelligence Systems ◽  
Investment Returns ◽  
Innovation Model

Purpose – After information systems (IS) implementation, many organizations report that system underutilization causes the failure to meet expected IS investment returns. It is imperative to understand the way to leverage employees’ fullest potential in the IS usage. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Anchoring on absorptive capacity (ACAP) theory, the authors develop an employee innovation model. Using survey data and structural equation modeling, this research investigates how perceived organizational levers affect innovation with IS usage (INVU) by introducing individual ACAP as a mediator. Findings – The authors find general support for the research model through a survey of 205 employees using SAP business intelligence systems in China. The empirical data shows that three interrelated components of individual ACAP significantly contribute to INVU. The findings also suggest that, both fairness of reward and job autonomy are key organizational levers for the utility of individual ACAP. Furthermore, their effects on INVU can be fully mediated by individual ACAP. Originality/value – The authors empirically unpack and validate individual ACAP in IS innovation situation. The findings provide academics and practitioners with an understanding of how management can inspire employees’ potential in implemented system innovation.

Discussion: “Stranded Costs and Competitive Forces in the Electric Utility Industry”

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 220-221
Author(s):  
Lawrence J. White
Keyword(s):  
Policy Issue ◽  
Electric Utility ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Electric Utility Industry ◽  
Market Environment ◽  
Utility Industry ◽  
The Past ◽  
Electricity Deregulation ◽  
Competitive Forces

Stranded costs in the electric utility industry—the past costs incurred by incumbent utilities that could not be recovered in a competitive market environment—have been a troubling and troublesome policy issue for electricity deregulation. Although electricity deregulation surely would have proceeded slowly in any event,1 the stranded cost question— who (customers? shareholder-owners?) will absorb the losses in the forthcoming competitive environment?—has clearly slowed the process even further.

Physical Aesthetics: An Introductory Physics Course Through Metaphor

Leonardo ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 476-476
Author(s):  
Steven Zides
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Introductory Physics ◽  
Liberal Arts Institutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Bachelor Of Arts ◽  
Solving Equations ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
Physics Course

At liberal arts institutions, physics faculty struggle with the daunting task of creating a Bachelor of Arts physics offering (often referred to as Physics for Poets) that is both engaging and approachable. Over the past several years, the author has worked toward a new educational paradigm that presents introductory physics as a set of physical metaphors rather than an incomplete collage of problem-solving equations. By engaging the physical metaphors from both traditional physics and art historical viewpoints, students are forced to integrate two seemingly disparate sets of information into a cohesive knowledge base.

scholarly journals Data Information System Strategies in Business Intelligence

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-203
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan K
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Data System ◽  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Business Systems ◽  
Organizational Conditions ◽  
Critical Elements

The application of Information Systems (IS) in business necessitates critical comprehension of the business, management activities and the initiatives that structure various business systems. Various IS can be presented as management and business remedies to issues affecting the enterprise and influenced by the ecosystem. The initiatives in IS have significantly influenced how business is run in the modern competitive age. The advent and development of technology have allowed opportunities to be availed to people to prepare the business for challenges in this competitive environment. To effectively manage IS-centred frameworks, it is fundamental to implement effective approaches, which define framework, including the ways of managing them. Strategic data system alignment provides a fundamental approach to maintain and develop IS frameworks, which support operations in business. IS alignment plans and organizational plans are fundamental for enhanced Business Performance (BP). This research paper reviews the critical elements of strategic data system alignment in the transforming organizational conditions in developed countries.

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