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Keywords

enterprise absorptive capacity, bibliometric analysis, cluster analysis, content analysis

Abstract

In the wave of knowledge economy,absorptive capacity of enterprises is the key to improve their core competitiveness,innovation performance and enterprise value.The international research on enterprise absorptive capacity shows a continuous increasing trend.This paper takes absorptive capacity as the key word,limiting the research object to enterprises,and taking 3 668 SSCI literatures from 2011 to 2021 collected by web of science core collection database as samples.Through bibliometric analysis and citation content analysis,it is found that the four clusters of technology transfer,knowledge management,open innovation and exploration and exploitation are the international frontier fields of enterprise absorptive capacity research.Internal R&D and external knowledge search are important influencing factors of enterprise absorptive capacity,while innovation performance and financial performance are the key outcome variables of enterprise absorptive capacity.Based on dynamic capability theory and knowledge-based view theory,the latest research focuses on open innovation and knowledge management activities. Future research can further explore external knowledge,radical innovation and innovation performance of enterprises.

DOI

10.16315/j.stm.2021.06.006

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