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The Moderator of Innovation Culture and the Mediator of Realized Absorptive Capacity in Enhancing Organizations' Absorptive Capacity for SPI Success

The Moderator of Innovation Culture and the Mediator of Realized Absorptive Capacity in Enhancing Organizations' Absorptive Capacity for SPI Success

Jung-Chieh Lee, Chung-Yang Chen
Copyright: © 2019 |Volume: 27 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 21
ISSN: 1062-7375|EISSN: 1533-7995|EISBN13: 9781522563730|DOI: 10.4018/JGIM.2019100104
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Lee, Jung-Chieh, and Chung-Yang Chen. "The Moderator of Innovation Culture and the Mediator of Realized Absorptive Capacity in Enhancing Organizations' Absorptive Capacity for SPI Success." JGIM vol.27, no.4 2019: pp.70-90. http://doi.org/10.4018/JGIM.2019100104

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Lee, J. & Chen, C. (2019). The Moderator of Innovation Culture and the Mediator of Realized Absorptive Capacity in Enhancing Organizations' Absorptive Capacity for SPI Success. Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM), 27(4), 70-90. http://doi.org/10.4018/JGIM.2019100104

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Lee, Jung-Chieh, and Chung-Yang Chen. "The Moderator of Innovation Culture and the Mediator of Realized Absorptive Capacity in Enhancing Organizations' Absorptive Capacity for SPI Success," Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) 27, no.4: 70-90. http://doi.org/10.4018/JGIM.2019100104

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Abstract

Software process improvement (SPI) is critical to information system development. In the context of successful SPI, this research focuses on a firm's dynamic learning ability to see how it facilitates an effective means of acquiring and utilizing external SPI knowledge in responding to changing software development environments. Specifically, the authors propose a research model to investigate how two mechanisms of absorptive capacity are incorporated with innovation culture as a contextual factor to enable successful software process improvement. A survey was conducted including 125 SPI certified firms in China and Taiwan to examine the model. The findings indicate that a firm's potential absorptive capacity significantly influences realized absorptive capacity, which has a significant impact on SPI success and acts as a partial mediator between potential absorptive capacity and SPI success. Moreover, the results suggest that the mediating effect of potential absorptive capacity on SPI success via realized absorptive capacity is amplified when innovation culture is imposed.