Lane & Lubatkin (1998) "Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning
26 important questions on Lane & Lubatkin (1998) "Relative absorptive capacity and interorganizational learning
What is relative absorptive capacity?
- knowledge bases
- organization's structures and compensation policies
- dominant logics
Competition is increasingly knowledge-based. Why?
What has led to a shift from traditional resource or risk-sharing alliances to alliances with learning from partners as a primary goal?
- Higher grades + faster learning
- Never study anything twice
- 100% sure, 100% understanding
What can firms do through learning alliances?
Where does the importance of learning alliances to capability development place a premium on?
How is absorptive capacity defined?
What does every industry have for success?
Which three methods are there for learning new external knowledge?
- Passive
- Active
- Interactive
When does passive learning occur?
What are more active forms of learning?
Why can only the observable portion of another organization's experience be acquired?
What is the observable portion of anothers experience?
What does the fact that the knowledge they provide is articulable (observable) mean?
What is interactive learning?
Why is this knowledge more unique, less imitable, and thus better able to create strategic value?
What are the three industry wide effects where the incentives for investing in absorptive capacity are driven by?
- Demand
- Appropriability
- Technological opportunity
Which two criteria must a firms scientific or technological knowledge meet in order for it to be relevant enough to facilitate understanding and valuing new external knowledge?
- It must possess some amount of prior knowledge basic to the new knowledge
- Some fraction of the teacher's knowledge must be fairly diverse to permit effective, creative utilization of the new knowledge be the student
What dus understanding of the relevant basic knowledge permits the student firm to?
When do student firms have the greatest potential to learn from teachers?
What is often the motivation for establishing interorganizational collaborations?
What does the similarity of two firms'compensation policies serve as?
What is the organizational structure?
Why is structure important to how firms process knowledge?
What does structure reflect and store knowledge about?
What is a subtle but important difference between this dimension (commercialize) of relative absorptive capacity and the two prior dimensions?
- The first dimension is the similarity of scientific, technical, or academic knowledge: the know-what portion of the student's and teacher's knowledge bases
- The second dimension is the similartiy of the two firms' knowledge processing, the know-how portion of their knowledge bases
- The last dimension focuses on the similarities in the student's and teacher's commercial objectives, the know-why portion of their knowledge
What does the dominant logic of a firm determine?
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