Creative industry has high contribution to the national economy. Some literature shows that creative industry does not highlight some important aspects such as knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, and ambidexterity. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, ambidexterity, innovation capability and company's quality performance. This study uses mixed methods with the results of empirical study through the distribution of questionnaires to 150 business people in the creative industry and combined by interview result of creative industry entrepreneurs. The result shows that knowledge sharing had a positive and significant relationship with absorptive capacity and ambidexterity. While ambidexterity and absorptive capacity had positive and significant relationships with innovation capability and innovation capability had a positive and significant relationship with the company's quality performance. The results of this study are expected to help business people in the creative industry improve their quality performance through increased knowledge sharing, absorptive capacity, ambidexterity, and innovation capability.

The small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role on the growth of the econ-omies of developing countries. In Pakistan, SMEs hold about 90 percent of the total businesses in-cluding the textile industry. The performance of SMEs in the textile industry is influenced by sev-eral factors including the internal capabilities of the firms. Hence the primary objective of the study is to examine the relationship between the internal capabilities namely Innovation Capability, Absorptive Capacity and SMEs Performance among textile firms in Pakistan. The study is conducted using quantitative research. There are 377 questionnaires distributed among textiles SMEs of Pakistan and they were analyzed using some statistical tests. The results reveal that innovation capability and absorptive capacity influenced the performance of SMEs, positively.

The psychometric properties of the Absorptive capacity construct have been assessed in this study in the context of Pakistan. A total of 201 bank managers were included in the survey. Data analysis using the Smart PLC 3.0 revealed that the scale has satisfactory level of internal consistency reliability, conversion validity and discriminant validity. The findings refer to the fact that the ACAP construct could be responsively used in measuring the absorptive capacity in the banking sector of Pakistan.

Innovation is considered as an enabling tool for creating value and sustainable competitive advantage for organizations in dynamic environment of our times along with its ever-increasing complexities. Until innovation in developing countries needs more capital and talent, human capital (HC) is a key factor in innovative performance. People are the most important factor of exploitation of foreign knowledge; and knowledge focus in business environment is highly dependent on external information sources in order to develop innovation and improve performance of the company. Studies have shown that although importance level of knowledge is increased, but only 30 percent of existing knowledge is being used in organizations. Expensive but evitable mistakes take place due to information blockage; and the risk of losing knowledge is exceptionally higher when people leave the organization. This study is among the field research. The population includes large manufacturing firms across Khuzestan Province having been active throughout 2013. The data collection tool was a structured questionnaire and sampling is convenience method. The research questionnaire was distributed among a sample of 331 R & D and Human resources Experts selected using simple random sampling. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS and Amos statistical programs. The results indicate that organizational memory had significant impact on ACAP and innovation. Results also showed a significant positive effect of HC on ACAP, but did not support the effect of HC on innovation.