Absorptive capacity and entreprise guidance of Brazilian newspapers
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2020.e67496Abstract
Turbulent environments require firms to be able to learn and apply knowledge effectively to ensure entrepreneurial processes, innovations, and results. This research aims to evaluate the absorptive capacity of Brazilian newspapers with the entrepreneurial orientation of these organizations. The study object was chosen to take into account the moment of transformation of this business type from the consequences that the internet has brought to the way people consume information. With a quantitative approach, the paper concludes that the absorptive capacity of the studied companies influences their entrepreneurial orientation. The result from a survey applied to the primary managers of companies that own print media in Brazil. In addition to proving the research hypothesis through structural equation modeling, the study uses statistical analyses to identify and measure the OE (LUMPKIN; DESS, 1996) and ACAP (ZAHRA; GEORGE, 2002) dimensions.
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