The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of absorptive capacity (ACAP) and co-creation on innovation performance (INN).,The authors use survey data from Swedish and Norwegian companies (n=1,102) and establish a cross-national equivalence between Sweden and Norway.,The subsequent structural model revealed interesting differences. For Sweden, co-creation fully mediates the effect of ACAP on INN, whereas for Norway, ACAP has a direct effect on INN with no mediation. Subsequent regressions including control variables showed that the structural model is reasonably robust. The authors conclude that, despite the many common national features conducive to innovation between these two countries, sufficient differences remain to create substantial variation in the innovation processes.,The study presents a second-order model of ACAP that permits a unique test of cross-country differences.

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吸收能力，共同创造和创新绩效

本文的目的是检验吸收能力（ACAP）和共同创造对创新绩效（INN）的影响。作者使用瑞典和挪威公司的调查数据（n = 1,102）并建立跨国对等在瑞典和挪威之间，随后的结构模型显示出有趣的差异。对于瑞典来说，共同创造完全调解了ACAP对INN的影响，而对于挪威而言，ACAP对INN有着直接的影响而无需调解。随后的回归分析（包括控制变量）表明该结构模型相当可靠。作者得出的结论是，尽管这两个国家之间存在许多有利于创新的共同的国家特征，但仍然存在足够的差异，从而在创新过程中造成了巨大差异。