Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 2026, 16(3), 2026-0019
Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure and Dynamic Capability Formation: Panel Evidence from Innovation-Driven Firms
Director, New Commercial Science, Anhui Sanlian University, Hefei
230601, China, E-mail:
czua6264@outlook.com.
Project Management
Received April 22, 2026; revised May 18, 2026; accepted May 21, 2026
Available online May 29, 2026
Abstract: The requirements for structured knowledge-sharing investments within organizations to yield actual innovation capability are poorly understood. Further, organizations are increasingly adopting these investments. Based on dynamic capability theory, knowledge-based view, and absorptive capacity theory, Research and Development (R&D) intensity, as an institutionalized proxy for Structured Knowledge-Sharing (SKS) intensity, is conceptualized. This study finds a lagged impact of R&D intensity on the manifestation of innovation capability. Using a six-year unbalanced panel (2020 to 2025) of 129 firms listed in the United States that formally disclose their R&D expenditure, estimated with entity and time fixed-effect models and clustered standard errors, the study indicates a consistent investment-realization pattern: contemporaneous R&D intensity is negatively associated with revenue growth (indicating cost of investment phase), while lagged R&D intensity is positively and significantly linked to revenue growth. This result holds when controlling for firm age and market competition, excluding Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)-period observations, restricting the sample to non-outlier R&D firms, and subsampling by the technological environment. A mediation analysis gives partial support for absorptive capacity as a transmission mechanism. The core association retains validity across industries, as technological intensity does not moderate the relationship. The framework developed in this study is a temporally explicit, firm-level framework for assessing investments in Knowledge Management (KM).
Keywords: Knowledge sharing, innovation capability, dynamic capabilities, R&D intensity, innovation-driven organizations.
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Citation: Zhang, X. (2026). Knowledge Sharing Infrastructure and Dynamic Capability Formation: Panel Evidence from Innovation-Driven Firms. Journal of Engineering, Project, and Production Management, 16(3), 2026-0019.
