The main aspect of this paper is to analyse how family firms create the capabilities that foster the absorptive capacity, organizational memory and innovation in these companies. In this work, two important knowledge management capabilities are analysed. First, absorptive capacity, or the firm’s ability to identify, assimilate and exploit knowledge from the environment. Second, organizational […]
The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the mediator effect of innovative work behaviour between a HPWS and product innovation. Using PLS, this paper tests in a sample of 225 Spanish manufacture companies the relationships among HRM, IWB and product innovations. Our results provide strong evidence about the effect of the system of […]
The present paper analyses the potential relationships among collaboration within different companies for innovation purposes, organizational learning and product innovation. In this vein, we empirically argue that companies need to develop knowledge management procedures in order to transform this inter-organizational collaboration in new products or processes. Structural equation modelling was employed to test the hypotheses […]
This research explores this topic by developing the links between a firm’s organizational memory, counter-knowledge, the process of knowledge application, and organizational agility. This study addresses the following two questions: Does the enhancement of organizational memory result in the development of both counter-knowledge and the process of knowledge application? Does the development of both counter-knowledge […]