Absorptive Capacity at the Individual Level: Linking Creativity to Innovation in Academia

Authors

Ashley R. Davis, San Jose State UniversityFollow
N. Da Silva, San Jose State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2011

Publication Title

The Review of Higher Education

First Page

355

Last Page

379

Disciplines

Business

Abstract

The absorptive capacity construct has been examined across various country, interorganization, and organizational level phenomena. This paper presents a framework that adopts the absorptive capacity framework to explain the relationship between creative and innovative performance at the individual level. The framework is illustrated by predicting research scholarship among university faculty.

Comments

Copyright © 2011 Association for the Study of Higher Education. This article first appeared in The Review of Higher Education 34:3 (2011), 355–379. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Recommended Citation

Ashley R. Davis and N. Da Silva. "Absorptive Capacity at the Individual Level: Linking Creativity to Innovation in Academia" The Review of Higher Education (2011): 355-379.