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Teams’ innovation: getting there through knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity

Carla Curado, Mírian Oliveira, Antônio Carlos Gastaud Maçada, Felipe Nodari · 2015 · Knowledge Management Research & Practice

Summary. Knowledge sharing among team members drives innovation, but only when teams have strong absorptive capacity to process and apply that knowledge. The study tested this relationship across multiple Portuguese industries using 141 employees in organizational teams. Team tenure matters: longer-established teams share more knowledge than newer ones. Organizational size, geographic concentration, and gender had no significant effect on innovation outcomes.

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Curado, C., Oliveira, M., Maçada, A. C. G., & Nodari, F.. (2015). Teams’ innovation: getting there through knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity. Knowledge Management Research & Practice. https://doi.org/10.1057/kmrp.2015.8

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DOI
10.1057/kmrp.2015.8
Countries
Portugal
Regions
Europe
Categories
innovation-theory, innovation-networks, general-innovation
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2026-04-28