From Sensing Shape to Shaping Sense: A Dynamic Model of Absorptive Capacity and Selective Revealing

• Main Authors: ALEXY, Oliver, GEORGE, Gerard, SALTER, Ammon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Absorptive capacity; Knowledge; Selective revealing; knowledge production; innovation strategy; Strategic Management Policy; Technology and Innovation
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4915; https://proceedings.aom.org/content/2011/1/1.61.short?rss=1
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The concept of absorptive capacity is mainly agnostic to the iterative nature of knowledge production processes. We extend it to a dynamic model, in which firms can influence future spillovers they receive by selectively revealing knowledge today. We derive two strategies, signaling and steering, al...