Absorptive Capacity

Zahra, S. A., & George, G. (2002). Absorptive Capacity: A Review, Reconceptualization, and Extension. Academy of Management Review, 27(2), 185-203.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2002

Volume

27

Issue

2

Pages

185-203

DOI

10.5465/amr.2002.6587995

DOI registrant

Academy of Management

Link

https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.2002.6587995

Cited from

organizational_management, synthesized, systems_cybernetics

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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• Absorptive Capacity
  • that absorptive capacity is not a static trait but a continuously developed capability requiring investment in R&D, boundary-spanning roles, communication channels, and knowledge codification

    This sourceReconceptualizes absorptive capacity as a dynamic capability with four dimensions — acquisition, assimilation, transformation, exploitation — and distinguishes potential from realized capacity, framing it as continuously developed rather than static.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The abstract supports AC as a dynamic capability with potential and realized capacity, but does not state the R&D, boundary-spanning, channel or codification enablers, nor prior-knowledge determinism.

    “Building upon the dynamic capabilities view of the firm, we distinguish between a firm's potential and realized capacity.”

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• Adaptive Capacity
  • Listed in the references but not attached to a specific claim.
• Arbitrage (Generalized)
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