Organizational unit ACAP: Social context and performance outcomes

Konstantinos C. Kostopoulos, Dimitrios A. Brachos, Alexandros Papalexandris, Sofia Philippidou, Gregory P. Prastacos

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Abstract

This paper conceptualizes on an organizational unit's ACAP, and examines its relationships with several interpersonal conditions, knowledge-oriented outcomes, and performance consequences. In a sample of 93 marketing divisions from the Greek ICT, pharmaceutical and food industry, we develop a measure of unit's ACAP -defined as the ability to acquire, assimilate, and integrate new knowledge-, examine the determining role of several interpersonal unit characteristics (i.e., social interaction, trust, and shared vision), and test both the knowledge and performance effects of the absorptive capacity construct. The results of a structural model, through path analysis, provided support for all the hypothesized relationships, thus broadening our understanding of the conditions under which absorptive capacity may lead to knowledge and performance outcomes.

Original languageEnglish
JournalAcademy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event67th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, AOM 2007 - Philadelphia, PA, United States
Duration: 3 Aug 20078 Aug 2007

Keywords

  • Absorptive capacity
  • Knowledge
  • Unit performance

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