Keynote Speaker
Dr. Felix Arndt, Professor
Department of Management, University of Guelph, CanadaSpeech Title: Capturing the potential of Absorptive Capacity in the Digital Age
Abstract: “Absorptive capacity,” a widely studied construct in management research, remains theoretically underdeveloped and practically largely irrelevant. In this presentation, Professor Arndt present new ideas to conceptualize an organizations’ abilities to recognize, assimilate, and apply external knowledge. He presents ideas for different conceptualizations of absorptive capacity in the digital age. In addition, absorptive capacity research is classified in four schools of thought that have the potential to leverage progress in this area of research.
Biography: Felix Arndt is a Professor and the John F Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management at the Gordon S Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph, Canada, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Business and Sports of the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. Dr. Arndt’s research agenda is centrally driven by the question of how novelty/change comes about in business settings. His work has been published or is about to be published in the Academy of Management Collections, the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Management Studies, the Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management among many others.