Technological absorption as a growth strategy among indigenous African firms: A resource-based perspective
| dc.cclicence | CC-BY-NC | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Atiase, Victor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dzansi, Dennis | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ameh, Johnson Kwesi | |
| dc.date.acceptance | 2021-06-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-05-10T16:00:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-05-10T16:00:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-07-01 | |
| dc.description | The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Technology absorption has become an important driving force for firm competition, strategy and survival. Consequently, the capacity of African firms to absorb the right technology has dominated the contemporary discourse on the performance of African firms. Drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) theory and employing ordinary least squares regression model (OLS), we investigated the impact of human capital, access to credit, and electricity on the technology absorption capacity of African firms. Our evidence suggests that technology absorption in practice has the potential to increase performance. Nevertheless, a broad access to credit, electricity, and effective human capital development, we argue, accounts for the differential performance of African firms in developing technology absorption capacity. While education quality in promoting technology absorption in Africa is essential, governance structures do not seem to support the same. We conclude by delineating relevant implications of our study for policy and practice of technology absorption in Africa. | en |
| dc.funder | No external funder | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Atiase, V.Y, Dzansi, D.Y. and Ameh, J.K. (2021) Technological absorption as a growth strategy among indigenous African firms: A resource-based perspective. International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation, 18 (2), pp 207-229 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJTTC.2021.10041051 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2086/22908 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
| dc.publisher | Inderscience | en |
| dc.researchinstitute | Finance and Banking Research Group (FiBRe) | en |
| dc.subject | Africa | en |
| dc.subject | credit | en |
| dc.subject | electricity | en |
| dc.subject | human capital | en |
| dc.subject | technology absorption | en |
| dc.title | Technological absorption as a growth strategy among indigenous African firms: A resource-based perspective | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |