| The nature of AC | Investigating the definition, dimensions, components and measurements of AC; investigating contingency antecedents/outcomes of these components. | Cohen and Levinthal (1990); Zahra and George (2002), Jansen et al. (2005); Lane et al. (2006), Todorova and Durisin (2007); Murovec and Prodan (2009) |
| Intraorganizational learning | Investigating the relationships of AC and internal learning process; investigating the antecedents of the organizational learning of AC. | Cohen and Levinthal (1990); Andersson et al. (2016), Darwish et al. (2020) |
| Social networks | Investigating how AC can help firms better develop interorganizational networks and benefit from them; investigating the effect of social networks on AC. | Lane and Lubatkin (1998); Miller et al. (2016); Mei et al. (2019); Kurniawan et al. (2020) |
| Inter and intraorganizational knowledge sharing | Investigating the casual mechanisms between Inter‐ and intraorganizational knowledge sharing and AC. | Jansen et al. (2005); Junni and Sarala (2013); Berry (2017); Balle et al. (2020) |