The study explored the mediating role of potential and realized absorptive capacities in the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and radical innovation performance among manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).,Empirical analysis was based on 357 manufacturing SMEs in Ghana. Various validity and reliability checks were conducted before the presentation of the actual analysis, which was conducted using ordinary least squares approach, run using SPSS (v. 20).,Findings revealed that potential and realized absorptive capacities significantly mediated the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and radical innovation performance among manufacturing SMEs. Further, it was identified that ambidexterity in absorptive capacity also had a greater effect on radical innovation performance among manufacturing SMEs.,Since the data used were cross-sectional, the relationships measured represent only a snapshot of time. Longitudinal studies could therefore be adopted in the future to complement the cross-sectional conducted.,While managers of manufacturing SMEs seek to achieve higher radical innovation performance through entrepreneurial orientation, it should also be noted that both potential and realized absorptive capacities have a significant role to play in this relationship. Managers must therefore also seek to invest time to build both potential and realized absorptive capacities, as they define greater innovation success.,Some past studies have considered absorptive capacity as composite variable, therefore added both potential and realized absorptive capacities to form a single variable. Others also presented potential and realized absorptive capacities individually. This current study extends the body of knowledge by presenting an ambidexterity position between potential and realized absorptive capacities.

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创业导向对制造业中小企业创新创新绩效的影响：吸收能力的中介作用

该研究探索了潜力的中介作用，并实现了吸收能力在制造业导向的中小企业之间的创业导向与根本创新绩效之间的关系中。基于加纳的357家制造业中小企业进行了实证分析。在介绍实际分析之前进行了各种有效性和可靠性检查，该分析使用普通最小二乘法进行，并使用SPSS（v。20）进行。研究发现，潜力和已实现的吸收能力显着调节了企业家取向与企业之间的关系。制造业中小型企业的根本创新绩效。此外，还发现，吸收能力的歧义性也对制造业中小型企业的根本创新绩效产生更大的影响。由于使用的数据是横截面的，因此测量的关系仅代表时间的快照。因此，将来可以采用纵向研究来补充所进行的横截面研究。尽管制造业中小型企业的管理者寻求通过创业导向实现更高的根本性创新绩效，但也应注意，潜在的和已实现的吸收能力都具有重要作用。玩这种关系。因此，管理者还必须花费时间来建立潜在的和已实现的吸收能力，因为它们定义了更大的创新成功。一些过去的研究已将吸收能力视为复合变量，因此将潜在和已实现的吸收能力都添加到一个变量中。其他人也展示了潜力并实现了各自的吸收能力。这项当前的研究通过提出潜在能力与已实现吸收能力之间的矛盾位置来扩展知识体系。