The conceptual of knowledge absorptive capacity and the new paradigm of entrepreneurial antecedents

Abstract

Today, enterprises in the world faced to prosperities but within threatened and opportunities. Many researchers described absorptive capacity as crucial capability. This capability enables enterprises to recognize, understand, absorb, convey and utilize new external knowledge. Therefore, enterprise with higher level of absorptive capacity takes advantage to access higher level of new external knowledge. This phenomenon could lead enterprise to innovation, performance, flexibility or competitive advantage by lead form different and variety antecedents. In past decades, many researchers studied about different aspects as determinants of absorptive capacity, but in this subject still insight is limited and there are gap between absorptive capacity and other areas, which may have positive or negative effect on this capability. This paper highlighted last research, domain, recognize and significance of this capability as necessity construction in enterprises..