cam a22 2 4500 317112902 CHVBK 20201009031812.0 cr nn|008mamaa 140402s2014 xx -----s---- 0 0-eng-d 978-3-658-05551-6 print 978-3-658-05552-3 eISBN 10.1007/978-3-658-05552-3 doi (OCoLC)880344167 (IDSSG)000656025 Springer ger SzZuIDS HSG kids HD28-70 BUS063000 bisacsh 658.1 23 CH00111DCE6757BEF7ED8C1257F0700706E44 iCapture Organizational Culture and Absorptive Capacity The Meaning for SMEs by Dorothée Zerwas Wiesbaden Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2014 Online-Ressource Text txt rdacontent/ger Computermedien c rdamedia/ger Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier/ger Firms are increasingly collaborating with outside partners to access external knowledge that will enable them to successfully innovate and remain competitive in the marketplace. To apply external knowledge, they must have a distinctive capacity to absorb knowledge. One of the main influencing factors for absorptive capacity is a knowledge-friendly organizational culture, because the knowledge absorbing behavior of individuals can be better coordinated through implicit values and norms than through structural coordination instruments. When focusing on an organization's overall behavior, it is important to investigate in detail how a knowledge-friendly organizational culture influences absorptive capacity. Therefore, the author analysis the relationship between organizational culture and absorptive capacity and shows how a knowledge-friendly organizational culture should be designed to support the absorption of external knowledge in SMEs. Contents The Impact, Meaning and Challenges of External Knowledge Absorption The Conceptual Principles of Absorptive Capacity and Organizational Culture A Model of External Knowledge Absorption Implications for a Knowledge-Friendly Culture Target Groups Students and lecturers of innovation management Decision makers in knowledge management The Author Dorothée Zerwas is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Computer Science Faculty, Institute for Management. Economics Business planning Zerwas Dorothée https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05552-3 Volltext für Angehörige der Universität St. Gallen / FHS St. Gallen BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 noalma ids I IDSSG HSG HSG ONL HONL000656025 IDSSG HFHS HFHS ONL HONL000656025 IDSSG 700 1- Zerwas Dorothée IDSSG 856 4- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05552-3 Volltext für Angehörige der Universität St. Gallen / FHS St. Gallen SWISSBIB 317112902