Mensuração e análise da construção de capacidade absortiva em firmas intensivas em conhecimento em Minas Gerais

Abstract

In recent decades, absorptive capacity (ACAP) has emerged in the literature as one of the main themes in the field of management and is a construct used to explain various organizational phenomena. Since the 1990s, when the theme was introduced in organizational analysis, various efforts have been made to understand and analyze its antecedents and consequences. However, the literature still suffers from a greater empirical understanding of the antecedents of absorptive capacity and its implications for the management of firms' absorptive capacity. Based on a broad literature review of the antecedents of absorptive capacity, a survey of 155 knowledge-intensive firms (KIB's) was conducted to construct and validate an absorptive capacity measurement scale composed of 22 attributes. In addition, based on the scale developed we proposed an analysis matrix pointing out the antecedents (or organizational practices) that can contribute, in the firms studied, to the processes of acquisition, assimilation, transformation and exploitation of external knowledge for innovation purposes. The results in the surveyed firms indicate a concentration of organizational practices oriented towards the development of the absorptive capacity realized (RACAP) with several implications for the firms innovation.