José Moleiro Martins, PhD – Department of Management, ISCAL-Polytechnic University of Lisbon, Portugal; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Business Research Unit (BRU-IUL), Portugal

Series: Business, Technology and Finance; Business Issues, Competition and Entrepreneurship
BISAC: BUS000000; BUS020000; BUS068000
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52305/EDDY6542

Absorptive Capacity: Understanding How Organizations Transform External Knowledge into Strategic Capability addresses a critical organizational ability in times of technological disruption, sustainability demands, economic volatility, and ongoing institutional change. This ability involves recognizing valuable external knowledge, interpreting it, adapting it, and translating it into concrete action. The book draws on multiple fields, including strategy, innovation, entrepreneurship, digital transformation, public policy, sustainability, logistics, and emerging economies. It shows that access to information alone does not generate competitive advantage. Organizations gain an edge when they build effective processes for acquiring, assimilating, transforming, and applying knowledge across boundaries. Through conceptual models, empirical findings, sectoral applications, and practical cases, the chapters explore how absorptive capacity enables business model innovation, green transitions, decision readiness, policy adaptation, digital competitiveness, and organizational resilience.

This book is intended for researchers, students, managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers. It offers a thorough examination of how external insights turn into strategic assets.

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