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Enhancing Innovation through Organisational Resilience Capacity and Absorptive Capacity

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  • Huseyin Ince

    (Department of Economics, Gebze Technical University)

  • Salih Zeki Imamoglu

    (Department of Science and Technology Studies, Gebze Technical University)

  • Mehmet Ali Karaköse

    (Department of Management, Gebze Technical University)

  • Ufuk Cebeci

    (Department of Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University)

  • Murat Sagbas

    (National Defense University)

Abstract

The concept of resilience, which has been studied extensively in different disciplines and has recently gained an increasing interest in organisational science, has rarely been studied in the absorptive capacity and innovation literature. In this study, we empirically tested the relationships between organisational resilience capacity, organisational absorptive capacity, and firm innovativeness. By studying 211 firms in Turkey, we found that: (1.a) competence orientation and broad resource networks are positively related to all absorptive capacity variables, (1.b) conceptual orientation is positively related to all absorptive capacity variables except knowledge transformation, (1.c) behavioural preparedness is positively related to knowledge assimilation, (1.d) deep social capital is positively related to knowledge transformation and (2) knowledge assimilation and knowledge exploitation are positively related to firm innovativeness. Also, we found that absorptive capacity mediates the relationship between resilience capacity and firm innovativeness.

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  • Huseyin Ince & Salih Zeki Imamoglu & Mehmet Ali Karaköse & Ufuk Cebeci & Murat Sagbas, 2024. "Enhancing Innovation through Organisational Resilience Capacity and Absorptive Capacity," Working Papers 2024-02, Gebze Technical University, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    Organisational resilience capacity; absorptive capacity; firm innovativeness.;
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    JEL classification:

    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • L29 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Other

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