Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry

This study provides empirical response to recent calls for clarification on the micro-foundation of absorptive capacity (ACAP). ACAP originates in Cohen and Levinthal‟s seminal work to explain firm‟s incentive for learning, which is the ability to recognize the value of new knowledge, assimilate it...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Oluwaseyi Ojo, Adedapo
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2014
Subjects:	HD Industries Land use Labor HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

id	my-mmu-ep.6228
record_format	uketd_dc
spelling	my-mmu-ep.62282015-07-01T02:03:24Z Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry 2014-04 Oluwaseyi Ojo, Adedapo HD Industries. Land use. Labor HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management HD69 Other Including business consultants, capacity, size of industries, etc. This study provides empirical response to recent calls for clarification on the micro-foundation of absorptive capacity (ACAP). ACAP originates in Cohen and Levinthal‟s seminal work to explain firm‟s incentive for learning, which is the ability to recognize the value of new knowledge, assimilate it and commercially apply it. Thus advancing the extant assertion on conceptual affinity, this study synthesizes socio-psychological theory in creativity and organisational learning to delineate the specific antecedents for each dimension of ACAP. The individual‟s prior experience, need for cognition, learning and performance approach goal orientation are hypothesized as predictors of an individual‟s ability to recognize the value of a foreign partner‟s knowledge and assimilate it. And based on strategic alliance literature, the effects of social context in terms of trust in and support from foreign partners are proposed on the individual ability to recognize, team shared cognition and ability to utilize foreign partner knowledge. The data was collected from a cross sectional survey of local individual members of joint project teams (n=248) in the Nigerian upstream oil industry. And statistical analyses were conducted with the aid of SPSS and SEM (i.e., AMOS) software packages. 2014-04 Thesis http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/6228/ http://library.mmu.edu.my/diglib/onlinedb/dig_lib.php phd doctoral Multimedia University Graduate School of Management
institution	Multimedia University
collection	MMU Institutional Repository
topic	HD Industries Land use Labor HD Industries Land use Labor HD Industries. Land use. Labor
spellingShingle	HD Industries Land use Labor HD Industries Land use Labor HD Industries. Land use. Labor Oluwaseyi Ojo, Adedapo Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry
description	This study provides empirical response to recent calls for clarification on the micro-foundation of absorptive capacity (ACAP). ACAP originates in Cohen and Levinthal‟s seminal work to explain firm‟s incentive for learning, which is the ability to recognize the value of new knowledge, assimilate it and commercially apply it. Thus advancing the extant assertion on conceptual affinity, this study synthesizes socio-psychological theory in creativity and organisational learning to delineate the specific antecedents for each dimension of ACAP. The individual‟s prior experience, need for cognition, learning and performance approach goal orientation are hypothesized as predictors of an individual‟s ability to recognize the value of a foreign partner‟s knowledge and assimilate it. And based on strategic alliance literature, the effects of social context in terms of trust in and support from foreign partners are proposed on the individual ability to recognize, team shared cognition and ability to utilize foreign partner knowledge. The data was collected from a cross sectional survey of local individual members of joint project teams (n=248) in the Nigerian upstream oil industry. And statistical analyses were conducted with the aid of SPSS and SEM (i.e., AMOS) software packages.
format	Thesis
qualification_name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
qualification_level	Doctorate
author	Oluwaseyi Ojo, Adedapo
author_facet	Oluwaseyi Ojo, Adedapo
author_sort	Oluwaseyi Ojo, Adedapo
title	Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry
title_short	Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry
title_full	Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry
title_fullStr	Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry
title_full_unstemmed	Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry
title_sort	micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: implications of social context in joint project teams in nigerian upstream oil industry
granting_institution	Multimedia University
granting_department	Graduate School of Management
publishDate	2014
_version_	1747829608461369344

Micro antecedents of absorptive capacity: Implications of social context in joint project teams in Nigerian Upstream oil industry

Similar Items