An Empirical Study on Social Capital and Innovation Performance:Is Absorptive Capacity a Moderator?

摘要：

In the relationship between social capital and innovation performance, absorptive capacity plays a vital role. But whether it is a moderator or a mediator, there still exists controversy. Based on questionnaire survey to 94 companies in Guangdong province, the fac tor analysis of data indicates that social capital can be divided into two dimensions, while absorptive capacity can be reduced to three elements. Further correlation analysis and hierarchical multiple regression shows that social capital and absorptive capacity indeed produce marked and positive effect on innovation performance of the enterprise respectively, while absorptive capacity significantly moderates the relationship between the two other variables. Thus, absorptive capacity plays a moderator role.

关键词： Social capital Absorptive capacity Innovation performance Moderating effect

作者: DAI Yong XIAO Deyun ZHU Guilong

作者单位: School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R.China 510641 School of Management, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, P.R.China 430070

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 5th International Conference on Product Innovation Management(第五届产品创新管理国际会议 ICPIM 2010)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 830-835

在线出版日期: 2010-07-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）