Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research | Issue 10 Volume 30 CHAPTER X. TEAMS Article 3 6-12-2010 THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE OPPORTUNITY EXPLOITATION STAGE, IT’S ANTECEDENCE AND THE EFFECT ON NEW VENTURES PERFORMANCE Tali Sivan Technion, sivant@techunix.technion.ac.il Avi Fiegenbaum Technion Miriam Erez Technion Uzi De-Haan Technion This Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Entrepreneurship at Babson at Digital Knowledge at Babson. It has been accepted for inclusion in Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research by an authorized administrator of Digital Knowledge at Babson. For more information, please contact digitalknowledge@babson.edu. Recommended Citation Sivan, Tali; Fiegenbaum, Avi; Erez, Miriam; and De-Haan, Uzi (2010) "THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE OPPORTUNITY EXPLOITATION STAGE, IT’S ANTECEDENCE AND THE EFFECT ON NEW VENTURES PERFORMANCE," Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research: Vol. 30: Iss. 10, Article 3. Available at: http://digitalknowledge.babson.edu/fer/vol30/iss10/3