IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY ON THE INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: MEDIATING ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL AMBIDEXTERITY

Abstract

The main objective of the study is to investigate the impact of Individual absorptive capacity on the innovative work behavior. Meanwhile, the study has also examined the mediating role of individual ambidexterity in the relationship between the of individual absorptive capacity on the innovative work behavior. Few scholars have carried out an empirical research and suggested that the purpose of knowledge development for the subsistence is required for its significant role of individual variables as compared to the organizational variables. The acknowledgement regarding practices that need individuals to work together through the external condition and then attain appropriate knowledge that would supports to identify opportunities. The current research recommended that absorptive capacity might cause delay in the growth of fundamental new knowledge assets because of probability of research within limit and decreased variety. By the processes of exploitation and exploration the managers of an organization have gained benefits from external resources, the managers would need great amount of absorptive capacity which includes the variables such as interaction, cognition, action and motivation. this research work offered the worthy understandings into the association among the significant models of absorptive capacity, IWB in an open innovation setting and ambidexterity, it has some valuable restrictions separately from the common relation with the quantitative empirical research by using the information through survey.