مقالات رزومه نرجس بساق زاده

Despite the growing importance of the role of knowledge in promoting innovation performance and maintaining competitive advantage in a highly competitive global environment, organizations face many difficulties in utilizing and developing the external knowledge flow infrastructure. Promoting organizational learning based on absorptive capacity theory and creating exploration and exploitation structures based on organizational ambidexterity theory can be an explanation to help organizations to solve these problems. This study aims to explain the effect of knowledge absorptive capacity in achieving competitive advantage and the mediating role of organizational ambidexterity in a study in export companies.

The initial model was extracted from the literature and in the qualitative stage through in-depth interviews with experts, the final conceptual model was drawn. The research questionnaire, after confirming its reliability and validity, was distributed among managers and experts of Iranian export companies by random sampling method. The statistical population of the research were 570 top Iranian export companies. In the qualitative section, sampling was performed by theoretical sampling method and 11 managers of companies with more than 5 and 10 years of experience were selected. The field of activity of selected companies included: gas and petrochemical, steel, auto parts, pipes and fittings and food.

In the quantitative section, a sample of 78 companies was selected with the help of G*Power software. Qualitative data analysis was performed by ATLAS.ti and quantitative data with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) based on Partial Least Squares (PLS). The results show that the absorptive capacity does not have a significant effect on the competitive advantage. Nevertheless, the effect of this variable on organizational ambidexterity and the effect of organizational ambidexterity on competitive advantage is significant. Therefore, it can be said that organizational ambidexterity has been a perfect mediator in the relationship between absorptive capacity and competitive advantage.

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The findings of this study provide a path for export companies in order to gain a competitive advantage. Companies can facilitate the flow of external knowledge into the organization by strengthening the ambidexterious organizational structures, creating learning environments and strengthening the capacity to absorb knowledge.

The rapid and continuous development of markets and competitions has changed the boundaries and dynamics of the business environment. Therefore, firms have increasingly confronted with unexpected challenges. The theory of dynamic capabilities states that firms require dynamic capabilities to success and gain competitive advantage in rapidly changing complex environments. The purpose of this study is to quantify the effect of dynamic capabilities on competitive advantage through organizational ambidexterity mediation. Organizational ambidexterity is considered as a new managerial structure, which is discussed for the competitive advantage and survival of companies and is obtained through the efforts of organizations to exploit and explore opportunities. In this research, a questionnaire was developed to collect data and the sample size was suitable for 78 subjects using G*Power software. Research data collected from Iranian export companies. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to measure the effects of variables. The paper argues that dimensions of dynamic capabilities including sensing, seizing, and reconfiguring have a positive significant effect on competitive advantage, both directly and through organizational ambidexterity. Based on the results, all research hypotheses were accepted at a minimum level of 95% confidence. This research showed that dynamic capabilities have a positive impact on gaining competitive advantage. In addition, higher dynamic capabilities will facilitate the company's ability to mobilize resources to attract opportunities and eliminate threats and help to reconfigure knowledge resources to explore and exploit.

This study examines the relationship between Knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, and innovation capability. Given the importance of knowledge and learning in today's competitive environment, a knowledge-based organization is required to successfully and rapidly achieve its goals.. Knowledge is a valuable source for learning new skills and solves problems. Knowledge sharing can foster knowledge creation in organizations to improve competitive advantages thus a key element in continuous innovativeness. Studies have shown that the absorptive capacity has a significant impact on the firm's innovation capabilities. Also create the possibility to apply absorptive capacity in favor of firm’s competitive capabilities is a basis for competitive advantage. The research data were gathered from Guilan business incubators including 298 samples from members of these companies. The research method was survey type and the information was collected via questionnaire and a model of structural equations was used in order to measure the effects of variables. The results indicate that the absorptive capacity is a intervening factor in the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation capability. Furthermore the knowledge sharing has a positive and significant impact on the absorptive capacity.

This study examines absorptive capacity’s role and corporate culture in IS implementation success. Given the importance of learning and information absorptive in today's competitive environment, creating organizations and businesses based on information systems is required to successfully and rapidly achieve its goals. For using new information by employees and organizations it is necessary and inevitable to increase absorptive capacity in the organizations. Absorptive capacity is the organization’s ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate and apply it to achieve organizational ends. The research data were gathered from production companies of automobile segments, settled in the province of Guilan. The sample volumes was calculated totally 227 persons from several companies. The research method was descriptive which was a survey type. The information was collected via questionnaire and a model of structural equations was used in order to measure relations between variables. The results indicate that corporate culture and absorptive capacity has a direct relation and has a positive effect on IS success.