...Furong Qian; Jin Hong; Nana Yang; Xiaoyong Yuan Purpose This study aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation efficiency (IE), as well as the moderating role of absorptive capacity. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a sample of industrial enterprises...

...’ absorptive capacity and government institutional support affect these relationships. Design/methodology/approach Survey data from 236 manufacturing SMEs in China were used to test the proposed model using hierarchical regression analysis. Findings The results show that both OI breadth and depth...

... (NPD) and how these relationships are mediated by team absorptive capacity. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through two surveys from 71 NPD teams and analyzed by the confirmatory factor analysis, correlation and hierarchical regression analysis methods. Findings The authors find...

...Dr Mingzhi Li, Prof. Jiuchang Wei, Dr. Peter McKiernan; Zhi-hong Song Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships among organizational learning, absorptive capacity, imitation and innovation in the Chinese context. Design/methodology/approach – Based...

... examines the direct effect of environmental turbulence and the interactive effect of environmental turbulence and absorptive capacity (ACAP) on external knowledge search breadth. Design/methodology/approach – This study adopted firm-level data collected via questionnaires from SMEs within...