Knowledge creation and absorptive capacity: The effect of intra-district shared competences
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Knowledge creation and absorptive capacity: The effect of intra-district shared competencesDate
2011Publisher
ElsevierISSN
0956-5221Bibliographic citation
Scandinavian Journal of Management (March 2011), Vol. 27, no. 1, p. 66-86Type
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This paper takes a cross-level approach in contributing to defining the competences accumulated and shared in an industrial district, and to explaining how they differ from firm-specific, knowledge-based capacities. ... [+]
This paper takes a cross-level approach in contributing to defining the competences accumulated and shared in an industrial district, and to explaining how they differ from firm-specific, knowledge-based capacities. From a dataset of 952 Spanish firms and 35 industrial districts, we provide empirical evidence that industrial districts are spaces with dense networks of information and knowledge transfer, inter-personnel relationships and a strong specialised stock of human capital, which are accessible and shared by all firms embedded in such a district. However, we explain the complementarity between district and firm-specific capacities in order to develop the notion of absorptivecapacity, by indicating that the diffusion of shared competences is neither easy nor direct and that it requires a firm's internal learning effort to better absorb localised knowledge spillovers. Results enable us to shed new light on how firms’ knowledge creation and diffusion processes benefit from these external knowledge flows. [-]
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