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This research identifies what factors have impacts on strengthening the absorptive capacity, and intends to find out the methods contributing to the qualitative growth and continuous innovation of local government through organizational management. In order to empirically investigate the critical success factors leading organizational absorptive capacity, a literature review on absorptive capacity is conducted. Top management attitude, knowledge strategy, educational training, information technology, organizational characteristic and culture are selected as antecedents leading to absorptive capacity. A model is developed and empirically tested through the data collected from a questionnaire survey which is delivered to public servants and public corporation staffs in I-metropolitan city, Korea. The results show that organizational characteristic and culture, top management attitude, and knowledge strategy have a positive impact on absorptive capacity, while educational training and information technology are revealed to have no significant influence.