Article
Engineering, Industrial
Amit Jain
Summary: Organizational learning scholarship has shown that experience accumulation in manufacturing operations affects organizational productivity. However, the impact of knowledge loss on R&D productivity is not well understood. This study develops a model that demonstrates how knowledge loss decreases a scientist's R&D productivity by reducing their technological expertise and affecting knowledge spillovers. The findings highlight the importance of managing and retaining knowledge to sustain innovation and productivity in organizations.
Article
Business
Luigi Aldieri, Vania Sena, Concetto Paolo Vinci
Summary: This study empirically analyzes R&D intensive manufacturing firms in Europe, US, and Japan and finds that inter-industry R&D spillovers are positively associated with the likelihood of experiencing high growth episodes. It also shows that the relationship is conditioned by absorptive capacity and that shares of foreign patents are positively associated with the likelihood of experiencing high growth episodes among high-tech R&D intensive firms.
INTERNATIONAL SMALL BUSINESS JOURNAL-RESEARCHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Rafael Sancho-Zamora, Santiago Gutierrez-Broncano, Felipe Hernandez-Perlines, Isidro Pena-Garcia
Summary: This study examines how absorptive capacity and innovativeness impact business performance, finding a positive effect of absorptive capacity on innovation capacity and ultimately on business performance. Different dimensions of absorptive capacity and innovativeness play important roles in these relationships, contributing to a better understanding of how firms can increase profits by investing resources effectively.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Management
Shanshan Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiande Zhao, Jinyu Yang
Summary: This study proposes a research model that connects R&D investment, supply chain absorptive capacity (AC) from different partners, and firm innovativeness. The authors empirically examine the relationships using data from 262 manufacturers in China. The findings demonstrate the significant mediating roles of AC from customers and university and research institutes in the link between R&D investment and firm innovativeness. The study also reveals that under high levels of dysfunctional competition, R&D investment has a significantly greater effect on AC from university and research institutes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Management
Catalina Martinez, Sarah Parlane
Summary: This paper presents a theoretical framework that considers various factors influencing firms' decisions to hire star academics. The scientist's academic ability plays a critical role in the hiring process. When research and development activities are not strong substitutes, the optimal contract encourages multitasking and the firm targets applicants with either the highest or lowest ability. Scientists with the lowest ability are hired in environments where absorptive capacity investments have low returns, academic publications create significant negative externalities for the firm, or the academic sector offers attractive outside options. When academic ability cannot be verified, the contract must only attract scientists with the targeted ability. Top scientists may need to be overcompensated for their research outcomes, while low ability scientists may be excessively compensated for their development outcomes. This leads to a bias in favor of high-ability scientists when research and development activities exhibit strong complementarity, and a higher targeting of scientists with the lowest ability when the cost of conducting both activities increases.
Article
Business
Donggyu Kim, Chang-Yang Lee
Summary: R&D employee training enhances firm-specific technological competence, enabling better utilization of the stock of technological knowledge and moderating its effect on firm R&D productivity. Besides, other factors can influence the moderating effect of R&D employee training.
Article
Management
Christopher Williams
Summary: Human burden positively influences the receipt of health R&D ODA, with medical absorptive capacity moderating this relationship. In countries with low medical absorptive capacity, the relationship between human burden and health R&D ODA receipt is not significant.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Pilar Bernal, Martin Carree, Boris Lokshin
Summary: A prime motive for innovative firms to seek collaboration is to gain access to knowledge resources. Firms that already benefit from knowledge spillovers without establishing formal collaborative agreements may abstain from embarking on such agreements as they are costly.
Article
Business, Finance
Yanfang Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the impacts of information spillovers on R&D choices using a two-stage Cournot duopoly model. The results show that the spillover degree of basic R&D plays a significant role in firms' R&D decisions.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF ECONOMICS & FINANCE
(2022)
Article
Economics
S. Amoroso, D. B. Audretsch
Summary: Scholars agree that there is a strong relationship between a firm's R&D effort and knowledge spillovers. However, the sign of this relationship depends on factors such as the type of spillovers, appropriability level, firm type, and spillover measurement. This study aims to fill the gap by examining the role of gender in the founding team and analyzing the differences between male-owned and female-owned young entrepreneurial firms in terms of the influence of knowledge spillovers on their R&D intensity.
ECONOMICS OF INNOVATION AND NEW TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Management
Albert Banal-Estanol, Tomaso Duso, Jo Seldeslachts, Florian Szuecs
Summary: This study investigates the propagation of R&D spillovers across firms linked through Research Joint Ventures (RJVs). The findings suggest that cooperating in RJVs can alleviate the adverse effects of product market rivalry and enable firms to better absorb technological spillovers, thus creating value.
Article
Economics
Zhao Chen, Zhikuo Liu, Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Daniel Yi Xu
Summary: The study reveals that under a Chinese policy, firms receive substantial tax cuts by relabeling expenses as R&D, leading to a significant increase in reported R&D. Structural estimates show that relabeling accounts for 24.2% of reported R&D, and doubling R&D would increase productivity by 9%.
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Francoise Contreras, Ignacio Aldeanueva, Juan C. Espinosa, Ghulam Abid
Summary: The research analyzed absorptive capacity in Colombian companies and explored the predictability of realized capacity from potential capacity. The results indicated the importance of potential absorptive capacity for realized absorptive capacity, with organizational climate for innovation playing a mediating role in this transition.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nay Chi Khin Khin Oo, Sirisuhk Rakthin
Summary: This paper investigates the concept of organizational resilience (OR) in maintaining an organization's sustainability in the dynamic business world. It elucidates how OR can be fostered through the development of knowledge absorptive capacity. The study also explores other important factors for nurturing OR and presents a conceptual model for future organizational research. The novelty of the study lies in its use of a systematic review method that integrates bibliometric analysis and scoping review.
Article
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yan Zhao, Xiao Han, Xiaoran Yang, Zheng Li
Summary: The study revealed that different knowledge attributes have varied effects on organizational innovation capability, and the central position within R&D alliance networks plays a limited role in the relationship between knowledge attributes and organizational innovation capability.