Sancho-Zamora Rafael, Gutiérrez-Broncano Santiago, Hernández-Perlines Felipe, Peña-García Isidro
Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Law and Social Science, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain.
Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Social Science, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Talavera de la Reina, Spain.
Front Psychol. 2021 Oct 27;12:751997. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.751997. eCollection 2021.
The aim of this paper is to understand how absorptive capacity and innovativeness influence business performance. Most previous studies have not considered the different dimensions of absorptive capacity and innovativeness. As a consequence, they have not analyzed the relationships between these dimensions, such as potential and realized absorptive capacity (RACAP) and product and process innovation. In our study, we analyzed the relationships between each of these dimensions and their effect on organizational performance. To achieve this, in addition to the theoretical foundation provided by the working hypotheses, a questionnaire was sent to 800 CEOs of Spanish companies in different sectors, obtaining a response rate of 38.25%. Structural equation modeling was applied to test the hypotheses. This study confirms the positive effect of absorptive capacity on innovation capacity, which in turn has a positive effect on business performance. Moreover, different dimensions of absorptive capacity and innovativeness play an important role in these relationships. This study contributes to a better understanding of how potential and RACAP influence the innovativeness of firms, both in their ability to innovate products and to improve business processes. In addition, it explores how these different innovations impact business performance and provide firms with knowledge on how to invest resources to increase profits. Future research should further study the inner workings of each of the dimensions analyzed to determine the importance of each dimension for business performance.
本文旨在了解吸收能力和创新能力如何影响企业绩效。以往大多数研究并未考虑吸收能力和创新能力的不同维度。因此，它们没有分析这些维度之间的关系，如潜在吸收能力和实现吸收能力（RACAP）以及产品创新和流程创新之间的关系。在我们的研究中，我们分析了这些维度中的每一个之间的关系及其对组织绩效的影响。为了实现这一目标，除了工作假设提供的理论基础外，我们还向西班牙不同行业的800位首席执行官发送了问卷，得到了38.25%的回复率。应用结构方程模型来检验这些假设。本研究证实了吸收能力对创新能力的积极影响，而创新能力反过来又对企业绩效产生积极影响。此外，吸收能力和创新能力的不同维度在这些关系中发挥着重要作用。本研究有助于更好地理解潜在吸收能力和实现吸收能力如何影响企业的创新能力，包括其创新产品和改进业务流程的能力。此外，它还探讨了这些不同的创新如何影响企业绩效，并为企业提供如何投资资源以增加利润的知识。未来的研究应进一步研究所分析的每个维度的内部运作，以确定每个维度对企业绩效的重要性。
