دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی ترکیبی از ظرفیت های جذب پذیر: نقش اختلالات سازمانی و محدودیت های زمانی - الزویر 2018

abstract

This paper explores absorptive capacity metaroutines in a financial organization that experienced a large-scale misappropriation episode. We selected an instrumental case and collected individual semistructured interviews, on-site nonparticipant observations, and documents to better understand the combination of absorptive capacity in organizational contexts. Findings revealed that the magnitude of organizational disruptions and time constraints influenced absorptive capacity metaroutines. The magnitude of organizational disruptions related to the intensity of required change for innovation adoption and the persistence of outcomes, while time constraints influenced the degree of involvement and cohesiveness of organizational members. In addition, findings showed that the combination of absorptive capacity metaroutines experienced asymmetries and had incremental and cumulative features. This work extends current theorizations of absorptive capacity conceptualized from a microfoundation perspective as a collection of external and internal metaroutines and provides a means to start understanding potential factors that influence the combination of absorptive capacity metaroutines. Implications for theory and practice are discussed, and suggestions for future research are offered.

Conclusions

We explored absorptive capacity metaroutines in a financial organization. We discovered that magnitude of organizational disruptions and time constraints influenced absorptive capacity internal and external metaroutines. Intensity of required change for innovation adoption and persistence of outcomes related to the magnitude of organizational disruptions, while degree of involvement and cohesiveness of organizational members related to the time constraints factor. In addition, we found that the combination of absorptive capacity metaroutines experienced a certain level of asymmetries and had incremental and cumulative features. Our findings extend current theorizations of absorptive capacity metaroutines and give preliminary directions to explain why some combinations of metaroutines appear to be superior to others. We believe that our investigation offers fruitful directions to future studies on the microfoundations of absorptive capacity.