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@article{citeulike:5984968, abstract = {We merge research into knowledge management, absorptive capacity, and dynamic capabilities to arrive at an integrative perspective, which considers knowledge exploration, retention, and exploitation inside and outside a firm's boundaries. By complementing the concept of absorptive capacity, we advance towards a capability-based framework for open innovation processes. We identify the following six 'knowledge capacities' as a firm's critical capabilities of managing internal and external knowledge in open innovation processes: inventive, absorptive, transformative, connective, innovative, and desorptive capacity. 'Knowledge management capacity' is a dynamic capability, which reconfigures and realigns the knowledge capacities. It refers to a firm's ability to successfully manage its knowledge base over time. The concept may be regarded as a framework for open innovation, as a complement to absorptive capacity, and as a move towards understanding dynamic capabilities for managing knowledge. On this basis, it contributes to explaining interfirm heterogeneity in knowledge and alliance strategies, organizational boundaries, and innovation performance.}, address = {WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management; ; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)}, author = {Lichtenthaler, Ulrich and Lichtenthaler, Eckhard}, citeulike-article-id = {5984968}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00854.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/122498768/ABSTRACT}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00854.x}, issn = {1467-6486}, journal = {Journal of Management Studies}, keywords = {absorptive, capability-based, capacity, complementing, framework, innovation, open}, number = {8}, pages = {1315--1338}, posted-at = {2009-10-22 15:55:26}, priority = {3}, title = {A Capability-Based Framework for Open Innovation: Complementing Absorptive Capacity}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00854.x}, volume = {46}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5984968 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5984968 N2 - We merge research into knowledge management, absorptive capacity, and dynamic capabilities to arrive at an integrative perspective, which considers knowledge exploration, retention, and exploitation inside and outside a firm's boundaries. By complementing the concept of absorptive capacity, we advance towards a capability-based framework for open innovation processes. We identify the following six 'knowledge capacities' as a firm's critical capabilities of managing internal and external knowledge in open innovation processes: inventive, absorptive, transformative, connective, innovative, and desorptive capacity. 'Knowledge management capacity' is a dynamic capability, which reconfigures and realigns the knowledge capacities. It refers to a firm's ability to successfully manage its knowledge base over time. The concept may be regarded as a framework for open innovation, as a complement to absorptive capacity, and as a move towards understanding dynamic capabilities for managing knowledge. On this basis, it contributes to explaining interfirm heterogeneity in knowledge and alliance strategies, organizational boundaries, and innovation performance. IS - 8 JF - Journal of Management Studies SN - 1467-6486 AD - WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management; ; Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) EP - 1338 TI - A Capability-Based Framework for Open Innovation: Complementing Absorptive Capacity VL - 46 SP - 1315 KW - absorptive KW - capability-based KW - capacity KW - complementing KW - framework KW - innovation KW - open AU - Lichtenthaler, Ulrich AU - Lichtenthaler, Eckhard PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6486.2009.00854.x ER -