TY - JOUR
AU - Lichtenthaler, Eckhard
AB - abstract We merge research into knowledge management, absorptive capacity, and dynamic capabilities to arrive at an integrative perspective, which considers knowledge exploration, retention, and exploitation inside and outside a firm's boundaries. By complementing the concept of absorptive capacity, we advance towards a capability‐based framework for open innovation processes. We identify the following six ‘knowledge capacities’ as a firm's critical capabilities of managing internal and external knowledge in open innovation processes: inventive, absorptive, transformative, connective, innovative, and desorptive capacity. ‘Knowledge management capacity’ is a dynamic capability, which reconfigures and realigns the knowledge capacities. It refers to a firm's ability to successfully manage its knowledge base over time. The concept may be regarded as a framework for open innovation, as a complement to absorptive capacity, and as a move towards understanding dynamic capabilities for managing knowledge. On this basis, it contributes to explaining interfirm heterogeneity in knowledge and alliance strategies, organizational boundaries, and innovation performance.
TI - A Capability‐Based Framework for Open Innovation: Complementing Absorptive Capacity
JF - Journal of Management Studies
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00854.x
DA - 2009-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-capability-based-framework-for-open-innovation-complementing-HnYog2ZdRU
SP - 1315
VL - 46
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -