The Strategic Role of Innovative Capabilities in the Relationship among Social Capital, Knowledge Sharing and Firm Performance

Author

Zhu Yu ; Wang Yanfei

Author_Institution

Sch. of Bus. Adm., Jinan Univ., Guangzhou, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

To explore the relationships among social capital, innovative capabilities, knowledge sharing and firm performance, Chinese enterprises participated in this investigation. We found that social capital influenced innovative capabilities, while innovative capabilities influenced knowledge sharing and firm performance positively. Besides, knowledge sharing influenced firm performance positively. And social capital also had a direct influence on knowledge sharing. As anticipated, the intervening effect of innovative capabilities between social capital and knowledge sharing and firm performance was significant. Implications, limitations and future research directions for the study are discussed.

Keywords

innovation management; knowledge management; organisational aspects; performance evaluation; socio-economic effects; China; firm performance; innovative capabilities; knowledge sharing; social capital; Convergence; Cultural differences; Humans; Hydrogen; IEEE activities; Performance gain; Social implications of technology; Technological innovation; Testing; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5302955

Filename

5302955