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- Capacidade de absorção e processos organizacionais de gestão do conhecimento: relações com a inovaçãoPublication . Costa, Vítor Manuel Valente da; Monteiro, Samuel José FonsecaThe present doctoral thesis, written in the field of work and organizational psychology, merges theoretical and empirical scientific papers, and aims to answer to research goals related with the theoretical and empirical exploration and analysis of the existent relationships between absorptive capacity, key knowledge management processes and organizational innovation. Moreover, the present work analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the absorptive capacity’s construct dimensionality. The developed theoretical chapters allowed the creation of an integrative model, strengthening the link between knowledge management processes and the phases of absorptive capacity as well as framing organizational innovation as a consequent of key knowledge processes and the organizational capability of acquiring external knowledge and apply it to commercial ends, that is, its absorptive capacity. One hundred eleven respondents, from different organizations, from ten activity sectors, participated on an online survey that collected sociodemographic data of the key informant and the corresponding company. An absorptive capacity scale, as well as instruments to assess knowledge management processes – namely the key processes of acquisition, sharing, storage and documentation, and knowledge creation – and an organizational innovations scale were applied. The results, presented on the two empirical chapters, show that, on the surveyed companies, the organizational processes of knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing reinforce absorptive capacity and new knowledge creation. Intra-organizational knowledge sharing also potentiates organizational innovation, though the mediating role of internal knowledge creation, variable that appears to be the strongest predictor of organizational innovation on the analyzed sample. Considering the results presented on chapter three and searching for more detailed knowledge on the variables that can promote internal knowledge creation, a model that reflects the interrelationships between potential absorptive capacity, the process of knowledge storage, and realized absorptive capacity was tested. The analysis showed that knowledge storage and the organizations’ realized absorptive capacity, that is, its ability to transform an apply previously acquired and assimilated knowledge, positively influence new knowledge creation and both, individually and conjointly, play a mediating role between potential absorptive capacity and the internal creation of new knowledge. Conclusions and final considerations are presented, with reflections about theoretical (for work and organizational psychology research) and practical (for the work and organizational psychologist) implications of the thesis, as well as its limitations.