Soaking It Up: Absorptive Capacity in Interorganizational New Product Development Teams

Julia Backmann, Martin Hoegl, John Cordery · 2015 · Journal of Product Innovation Management

Summary. This study measures absorptive capacity—the ability to acquire, assimilate, and exploit knowledge—at the team level in interorganizational product development. Analyzing 98 teams across organizations, the researchers found that work-style similarity and moderate knowledge complementarity between partner teams strengthen absorptive capacity, while social similarity does not. Teams with higher absorptive capacity produced more innovative products, demonstrating that knowledge absorption at the team level directly drives innovation outcomes.

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  title   = {Soaking It Up: Absorptive Capacity in Interorganizational New Product Development Teams},
  author  = {Julia Backmann and Martin Hoegl and John Cordery},
  journal = {Journal of Product Innovation Management},
  year    = {2015},
  doi     = {10.1111/jpim.12295},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12295}
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DOI

10.1111/jpim.12295

Categories

innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation

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2026-04-28