What Makes Firms Innovative? The Role of Social Capital in Corporate Innovation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theory and Hypotheses
2.1. Knowledge Management, Human Capital, Social Capital and Innovation
2.2. Investment in Human Capital and Social Capital
2.3. Social Capital and Innovation
2.4. The Mediating Role of Social Capital
3. Method
3.1. Research Setting and Analysis
3.2. Focal Variables
3.3. Control Variables
4. Results
5. Discussion
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Mean | SD | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
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1. Innovation Performance | 10.24 | 1.36 | 1 | ||||||||
2. Human Capital Investment | 0.11 | 0.15 | 0.19 ** | 1 | |||||||
3. Structural Social Capital | 2.63 | 0.38 | 0.23 ** | 0.19 ** | 1 | ||||||
4. Relational Social Capital | 3.53 | 0.35 | 0.34 ** | 0.25 ** | 0.48 ** | 1 | |||||
5. Cognitive Social Capital | 3.27 | 0.47 | 0.30 ** | 0.18 ** | 0.41 ** | 0.66 ** | 1 | ||||
6. Environment Change | 5.45 | 1.49 | 0.34 ** | 0.09 | 0.18 ** | 0.09 ** | 0.09 | 1 | |||
7. Human Capital Level | 2.99 | 0.48 | 0.32 ** | 0.10 | 0.17 ** | 0.22 ** | 0.15 ** | 0.10 | 1 | ||
8. Prior Performance | 2.50 | 1.07 | −0.25 ** | −0.10 | −0.12 * | −0.14 * | −0.09 | −0.34 ** | −0.17 ** | 1 | |
9. Firm Size | 750.9 | 1982.5 | 0.23 ** | 0.11 | 0.20 ** | 0.18 ** | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.13 * | −0.08 | 1 |
CMIN | df | CMIN/df | RMSEA | CFI | NFI | TLI | △χ2 | |
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Partially mediated model | 35.521 | 12 | 2.960/12 | 0.079 | 0.949 | 0.929 | 0.807 | |
Fully mediated model | 37.465 | 13 | 2.882/13 | 0.077 | 0.946 | 0.925 | 0.815 | 1.94 |
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