INDIVIDUAL ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A CONFIRMATORY STUDY BASED ON STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING

A confirmatory study was carried out to investigate the relationships between the four dimensions of the Individual Absorptive Capacity (IAC) construct, integrating the models by Cohen and Levanthal (1990) and Zahra and George (2002). The quantitative, non-probabilistic approach was used, with a convenience sample of 62 respondents. The instrument used, validated by Lowik et al (2012), was analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The locus of the research was the company RedFox Fiber, in the telecommunications industry. The model proposed by the study validated the relationship between the acquire, assimilate, transform, and apply dimensions as proposed by Zahra and George (2002); however, it invalidated the relationship between assimilate and apply dimensions as proposed by Cohen and Levinthal (1990).