Concurrent increase in the degree of competition and access to information makes it both a challenge and necessity for firms to develop their ability to sense, seize and exploit knowledge-based advantages. Since absorptive capacity reflects an organization's ability to extract innovative ideas from its environment, it plays a critical role in fostering intrapreneurship and innovative performance within existing firms. In this paper, we adopt micro-foundations perspective and study how goal orientations of employees affect their individual-level absorptive capacity, which would in turn shape collective innovative performance. Furthermore, we examine conditions under which individuals' absorptive capacities can efficiently aggregate and leads to increased collective innovation performance. We tested our theoretical model using an original dataset collected from 648 knowledge workers from 126 functional areas. Our analysis show that individuals' learning and prove orientation are important predictors of their absorptive capacity, and that individuals' aggregate absorptive capacity would lead to positive innovation outcomes especially when their activities are highly coordinated.

竞争程度和信息获取程度的同时提高，使企业发展其感知，抓住和利用基于知识的优势的能力既是挑战，也是必须。由于吸收能力反映了组织从其环境中提取创新思想的能力，因此它在培养现有公司内部的企业精神和创新绩效方面起着至关重要的作用。在本文中，我们从微观基础的角度出发，研究员工的目标取向如何影响他们的个人吸收能力，进而影响集体创新绩效。此外，我们研究了个人吸收能力可以有效聚集并导致集体创新绩效提高的条件。我们使用从126个功能区的648名知识工作者那里收集的原始数据集测试了我们的理论模型。我们的分析表明，个人的学习和证明取向是他们吸收能力的重要预测指标，并且个人的总体吸收能力将导致积极的创新成果，尤其是当他们的活动高度协调时。