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Title: Soaking It Up: Absorptive Capacity in Interorganizational New Product Development Teams.
Authors: Backmann, Julia, Hoegl, Martin, Cordery, John L.
Source: Journal of Product Innovation Management. Nov2015, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p861-877. 17p. 1 Diagram, 3 Charts.
Subjects: Absorptive capacity (Economics), New product development management, Innovation management, Technological innovations, Competitive advantage in business, Research & development
Abstract: Prior research has acknowledged the importance of an organization's absorptive capacity-the ability to acquire new knowledge and information, assimilate, transform, and exploit it-for innovation purposes. Because innovations are usually developed by project teams, this suggests that absorptive capacity, as a construct, may also be usefully applied at the team level. Consequently, this study developed a measure for team-level absorptive capacity, investigated the potential influencing factors, and examined its relationship to team effectiveness in terms of product innovativeness in an interorganizational context. Specifically, building on the theory of homophily and information and decision-making theories, three factors (social-category similarity, work-style similarity, and knowledge complementarity between the recipient and the partner organization teams) were identified as likely antecedents of team absorptive capacity. The hypotheses were tested on data from 98 interorganizational new product development teams and included responses from team members, team leaders, and team-external managers. With regard to the antecedents of team absorptive capacity in interorganizational settings, the results showed a significant positive association with partners' work-style similarity and an inverted U-shaped relationship with partners' knowledge complementarity. Social-category similarity was not significantly associated with team absorptive capacity. We also examined whether team absorptive capacity was related to interorganizational team effectiveness and found a significant positive relationship between team absorptive capacity and product innovativeness. The study demonstrates that absorptive is indeed related to team effectiveness outcomes in an interorganizational context, which underlines the importance of team-level absorptive capacity for product innovation management and suggests paying more attention to the lower levels of absorptive capacity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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