Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 91 managers of small service firms and 312 customers in the twin city of Tornio and Haparanda on the border between Finland and Sweden was conducted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a complexity-theoretic model of how invention is an iterative process of design conceptualization, component decomposition, overcoming technical challenges, and absorbing and recombining knowledge.

TL;DR: This paper studies on the signaling game analysis of knowledge heterogeneity in Virtual Practice Community based on two-period reputation model to reveal the management meaning of this optimal interval.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a project-level contingency approach for explaining inbound sourcing choices at the project level of analysis, based on the knowledge-based determinants of sourcing decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovative capabilities.

TL;DR: In this article, a firm is considered to have a sustained competitive advantage when it is implementing a value creating strategy that no competitor is implementing and when these competitors are unable to duplicate the benefits of this strategy.

TL;DR: The dynamic capabilities framework as mentioned in this paper analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change, and suggests that private wealth creation in regimes of rapid technology change depends in large measure on honing intemal technological, organizational, and managerial processes inside the firm.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the usefulness of analyzing firms from the resource side rather than from the product side, in analogy to entry barriers and growth-share matrices, the concepts of resource position barrier and resource-product matrices are suggested.