نوع مقاله : توصیفی
نویسندگان
1 دانشجوی دکتری مدیریت تکنولوژی، دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
2 استادیار دانشکده حسابداری و مدیریت، دانشگاه علامه طباطبائی
3 دانشگاه پیام نور واحد تحصیلات تکمیلی، گروه مدیریت، ص. پ. 3697-19395 ، تهران، ایران.
چکیده
هدف اصلی این پژوهش، بررسی ارتباط بین ظرفیت جذب و رقابتپذیری کشورهای در حال توسعه و به تازگی توسعه یافته میباشد. بدین منظور پس از بررسی مبسوط نظری حول مفهوم ظرفیت جذب، عناصر تشکیل دهنده و شاخصهای سنجش آن شناسایی و تبیین گردید. در ادامه به همین ترتیب، سه چارچوب عمده و متداول سنجش رقابتپذیری ملی بررسی و شاخصهای آن استخراج گردید. با توجه به موجود نبودن دادهها و نیز عدم بررسی ایران در آنها، چارچوب مجمع جهانی اقتصاد (بر اساس گزارش 2013-2014) به عنوان چارچوب مبنا، انتخاب شد. پس از مصاحبه با سه استاد اقتصاد، 11 شاخص استخراج شده از ادبیات به عنوان شاخصهای مبنای ظرفیت جذب در نظر گرفته شد. در فاز بعدی میبایست، کشورهایی شبیه ایران جهت مطالعه انتخاب میشد. بر این اساس نه کشور در حال توسعه و یا به تازگی توسعه یافته جهت بررسیهای بعدی انتخاب گردید که همگی دارای وضعیت مناسبی هستند و از آنها میتوان به خوبی به عنوان شاخص مقایسه با ایران بهره برد. بررسی کمی بین ظرفیت جذب و رقابتپذیری، همبستگی مثبت بین ظرفیت جذب و رقابتپذیری کلی کشورهای مطالعه تأیید گردید. به طور دقیقتر ظرفیت دارای همبستگی مثبت و معنادار با عوامل نوآوری و عوامل کارایی در رقابتپذیری است، اما رابطهی معناداری بین ظرفیت جذب و الزامات پایه رقابتپذیری وجود ندارد. بر اساس نتایج این تحقیق کشورهای در حال توسعه میبایست برای بهبود رقابتپذیری، توجه به ظرفیت جذب را به عنوان یک باید تلقی نموده و جهت بهبود آن اقدامات لازم را صورت دهند.
کلیدواژه‌ها
عنوان مقاله [English]
Impact of Absorptive Capacity on technology competitiveness enhancement: Key to the success of public organization (with emphasis on Iran)
نویسندگان [English]
- Kiarash Fartash 1
- Reza Salami 2
- Seyyed Mehdi Moosavi Davoodi 3
چکیده [English]
The main goal of this paper is to investigate the relationship between absorptive capacity & competitiveness of developing and emerging countries. After holistic review of literature, absorptive capacity constructive elements and measuring variables of it, was identified and clarified. Then, three main frameworks of measuring national competitiveness and their relative indexed was extracted. Because of lack of Iran’s data in 2 of 3 studied frameworks, WEF framework (2013-2014 report) was selected as a base of this research. After interviewing with 3 outstanding economists, 11 extracted indexes of absorptive capacity from literature was selected. In the next phase, 9 developing and emerging countries like Iran, that are exemplary for their status and are choices for comparison. Quantitive analysis results verified the positive relationship between total absorptive capacity & competitiveness in ten studied countries. With more detail, absorptive capacity has a positive and significant relationship & innovation and efficiency elements of competitiveness. But there is no relationship with basic requirement elements of competitiveness. Based on the results, developing countries like Iran, must consider absorptive capacity as an essential component to enhance competitiveness and must take required actions to meet this objective.
کلیدواژه‌ها [English]
- Absorptive Capacity
- Developing Countries
- Public Organizations
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