Exploring the influence of resource environments on absorptive capacity development: The case of emerging market firms

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• 作者：Tsvetomira V. Bilgili^a ; ^{bilgili@ksu.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Ben L. Kedia^b ; ^{bkedia@memphis.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Hansin Bilgili^c ; ^{hbilgili@walton.uark.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：Emerging market firms ; Organizational learning ; Knowledge ; Absorptive capacity ; Institutions ; Factor markets
• 刊名：Journal of World Business
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：September 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：51
• 期：5
• 页码：700-712
• 全文大小：719 K

文摘

Research recognizes that emerging market firms (EMFs) have relatively underdeveloped absorptive capacity. Yet, scarce attention has been paid to the conditions that constrain or facilitate EMFs’ absorptive capacity development. In this article, we explore how differences in home country resource environments influence EMFs’ absorptive capacity. We suggest that home country institutions and factor markets influence EMFs’ choice among three learning strategies: duplicative imitation, creative imitation, and innovation. Building on the organizational learning perspective, we then explore how learning strategies of EMFs’ from different emerging economies influence their preferences with respect to sources of new knowledge, and consequently the implications of these strategic choices for their absorptive capacity.