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Article: Valuing IS/IT resources as an antecedent of absorptive capacity: an RBV perspective.(Technical report)
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- Issues in Informing Science & Information Technology
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- January 1, 2007
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Introduction
Strategic relevance of knowledge has been widely recognized for about two decades (Grant, 1996b; Nonaka, 1991; Sambamurthy, Bharadwaj, & Grover, 2003). The increased interest on knowledge has focused organizations on skills that enable knowledge creation, diffusion and exploitation. One of these skills is absorptive capacity, a "dynamic capability" that allows organizational knowledge creation and utilization (Zahra & George, 2002). It enables organizations to recognize the value of new external knowledge, assimilate it and apply it to commercial ends (Cohen & Levinthal, 1990). Considering absorptive capacity as a "dynamic capability" implies that ...