... capabilities,absorptive capacity, and the ‘gift economy’ areused to develop the conceptualization. Second, todiscuss implications of the conceptualization for the use of ICT and KMS in inter-organizational net-works. ... inter-organizational relation-ships (Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1996;Choudhury and Xia, 1999).An answer to the second question can be foundin the discussion on the RBV, absorptive capacity, and dynamic ... phase, exploration; (2) develop-ment phase, exploitation; and (3) diffusion and ending phase, exportation (Ancona and Caldwell,1990). Exploration, exploitation, and exportationrequire different...