Marabelli, Marco and Newell, Sue (2019) Absorptive capacity and enterprise systems implementation : the role of prior-related knowledge. ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, 50 (2). pp. 111-131. doi:10.1145/3330472.3330480 ISSN 0095-0033.

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Abstract

In this paper, we focus on how firms engaged in enterprise systems (ES) implementations absorb knowledge from consultant companies. We take a practice-based view of absorptive capacity (AC) and focus on how prior-related knowledge - a necessary condition to absorb new external knowledge - is created (when it is lacking). We therefore move from the traditional positivistic approach to AC to a more nuanced and practice-based approach of the construct, involving materiality and power considerations. We contribute to the IS literature by providing an account of AC that departs from the deterministic and outcome-focused approach that has characterized past studies and propose a view that accounts for everyday practices.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems
Publisher:	ACM
ISSN:	0095-0033
Official Date:	May 2019
Dates:	Date Event May 2019 Published 2018 Accepted
Volume:	50
Number:	2
Page Range:	pp. 111-131
DOI:	10.1145/3330472.3330480
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Open Access Version:	SSRN

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