Contributions of Absorptive Capabilities to Export Performance

França, Alexandra; Rua, Orlando Lima

doi:10.3311/ppso.10281

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“…Specifically, this theory focuses on investment in human capital (Lucas, 1988). The improvement in human capital will help firms to adapt in the competitive market (França and Rua, 2017) and lead to faster innovation. FDI is an important source to gain more knowledge by newer technology and higher capital stock (Anwar and Nguyen, 2010).…”

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The Causal Nexus Between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Indonesia: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bounds Testing Approach

Tanaya

Suyanto

2022

Period. Polytech. Soc. Man. Sci.

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The nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth has long been among the most debated issues in macroeconomics. Some studies find a positive link between the two factors, but others find no evidence. This current research fills the gap by analysing the causal nexus between foreign direct investment and economic growth in Indonesia for the period 1970-2018. Indonesia as a developing country is one of the largest recipients of FDI flow; hence the study on the impact of FDI on the economic growth is very much important. This current research employs a contemporary time-series procedure, involving several unit-root tests namely Augmented-Dickey-Fuller (ADF), Phillips-Perron (PP), Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin (KPSS), and Lee-Strazicich (LS), an Auto-Regressive-Distributed-Lag (ARDL) bounds-testing method for cointegration, and Granger causality test. The findings provide evidence of long-run and short-run causal direction from GDP to FDI. In contrast, FDI generates only a short-run relationship on GDP. The Granger causality test confirms the finding in ARDL that there is a unidirectional causality running from GDP to FDI.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Causal Nexus Between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in Indonesia: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bounds Testing Approach

Tanaya

Suyanto

2022

Period. Polytech. Soc. Man. Sci.

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Section: Background 21 Absorptive Capacitymentioning

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“…Another significant finding with respect to SME demonstrated that the company's absorptive capacity has a positive and significant influence on their export performance. França and Rua (2017) maintain that companies are able to acquire, transform and exploit knowledge through: informal knowledge gathering, clear definition of tasks, analysis and discussion of market trends and new product development, among others. Furthermore, absorptive capacity has been strongly linked to the concept of open innovation since companies that rely on this type of innovation are always screening their environment to search for technology and knowledge and do not exclusively rely on inhouse R&D (Spithoven et al, 2011); therefore, absorptive capacity has been defined as a precondition to open innovation.…”

Section: Absorptive Capacitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, as it will be better explained in the background section, AC literature has basically assumed that AC already exists in firms, so that, it has focused mainly on determining the RIBS 29,1 effects that AC has on performance (França and Rua, 2017;Lane et al, 2006) and the different types of innovation (Flor et al, 2018), as well as, in defining its mediating and moderating roles (Huang et al, 2018;Solís-Molina et al, 2018;Rua, 2018). In fact, this would explain why previous literature reviews have also focused on addressing these aspects.…”

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Absorptive capacity and organizational mechanisms

Páez

Ferreira

2019

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Purpose This study aims to contribute to fill the gap in the existing absorptive capacity (AC) literature relating to how organizational mechanisms applied both at the national and international level affect a firm’s AC. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature review was carried out using analytical articles from two sources – Web of Science and Scopus – aiming to cover as many studies related to the AC research topic. Findings The results show that the majority of the studies do not include a specific analysis of an organizational mechanism’s role as mediator or moderator of a firm’s AC. The analysis of the reverse knowledge set of mechanisms will provide for international business scholars and practitioners a compilation of specific strategies that MNC apply to improve AC. Originality/value The study identifies four sets of organizational mechanisms: external search strategy; organizational knowledge management; reverse knowledge; and mechanisms not orientated to knowledge management; and it describes their specific relationships with AC.

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