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The Research Into Effect Of Entrepreneurial Social Capital On Innovative Performance

Posted on:2010-07-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J Q FangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360272498902Subject:Business management
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With the deepening of economic globalization, enterprises have to constant innovated to maintain their competitive edge. Innovation has become a source of survival and development. Innovative activities of enterprises is an application of knowledge to change the world, it certainly will have a variety of complex relationship with many levels of society, thus to increase uncertainty and complexity. In this situation, enterprises'competitive advantage depends not only on their own internal resources, but also depends on a variety of resources and capabilities that embedded in the network and can not be imitated.From the sociological perspective, the key to improve technological innovation lies in effective access to internal and external social capital and use of knowledge. As the core of the enterprises innovation, Entrepreneur has become an indispensable resource. Therefore, empirical studies of how entrepreneur social capital upgrades the technological innovation performance were an important social value. In this paper, on the basis of the research literature of entrepreneur social capital, I proposed a conceptual model that entrepreneur social capital have a positive impact on absorptive capacity in order to promote technological innovation to enhance performance, and enterprises in Northeast China as research object, I studied the relationship between market social capital, technology social capital, government social capital, financial social capital and corporate technological innovation performance, and focus on the analysis of the relationship that absorption capacity influenced. In this paper, I suggest enterprises knowledge absorptive capacity as the intermediary variables to empirical study the impact of entrepreneurs social capital on the technological innovation performance, and comprehensive exposited how the entrepreneur social capital impact the innovation performance through absorptive capacity. In this study, the main issues discussed as follows: (1) what is the entrepreneur social capital? What are the constituent elements of it? (2) How the entrepreneur social capital impact the innovation performance through absorptive capacity? (3) What is the reality meaning of the impact of entrepreneur social capital on innovation performance for China's enterprises? The resolution of these issues will help us better understand the economic development of developing countries, social progress and the innovation mechanism of scientific and technological, and help to reveal the role of entrepreneur social capital in this process.To solve the first question, chapters II and III discussed the connotation of entrepreneur social capital, nowadays the study of entrepreneur social capital formed a different orientation both at home and abroad: Western scholars studies from the structuralism and defined entrepreneur social capital in a Web-based perspective; Domestic scholars are based on the "relationship" research tradition, defined entrepreneur social capital from the nature and quality of relationship between the entrepreneurs and stakeholders. Therefore, this study based on traditional Chinese relationship between the resources of entrepreneurs, considered entrepreneurs social capital is a capability that the entrepreneurs use their social networks to obtain the necessary business resources. And divided into four parts: entrepreneur market social capital, entrepreneur technology social capital, entrepreneur government social capital, entrepreneur financial social capital.Chapter V of the thesis put forward to resolve the second question, namely, how the entrepreneur social capital impacts the innovation performance through absorptive capacity? In this paper, I use qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis to the relationship between the entrepreneur social capital and entrepreneur technological innovation performance. I employ questionnaires to collect data, and sent out a total of 200 questionnaires, recycle a total of 120 questionnaires; the rate of valid questionnaires was 57%. we mainly use factor analysis, correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis in empirical testing. Through theoretical analysis and quantitative empirical research, this paper has been the following conclusions:Without taking into account the role of absorptive capacity, the market social capital, technology social capital, the government social capital, the financial social capital has a positive impact on improvement of technological innovation performance. Among them, the entrepreneur market social capital, entrepreneur technology social capital have significantly positive impact on technological innovation performance; entrepreneur government social capital and entrepreneur financial social capital have significantly weaker impact on technological innovation performance .In considering the role of absorptive capacity, the market social capital, technology social capital, the government social capital, the financial social capital has a significantly positive impact on improvement of technological innovation performance. At the same time, entrepreneur social capital has a significant positive impact on absorptive capacity while the absorptive capacity has a significant positive impact on technological innovation performance. Therefore, the absorptive capacity was intermediaries in the study of the entrepreneur social capital impacts the innovation performance.Chapter VI of the thesis put forward the reality meaning of the impact of entrepreneur social capital on innovation performance for China's enterprises, that is, the enlightenment of the results of a study on the management practices. The results for this article put forward three proposals: first, the academic community should strengthen the study of entrepreneur social capital, to better guide the management practices; Second, emphasis on building and nurturing of entrepreneurs'social networks. The building and nurturing of entrepreneurs'social networks in large measure determines the access to information and resources; Third, entrepreneurs should continue to strengthen their own learning practice. As business leaders, not only need to continue to strengthen theirs ability to learn and continuously improve themselves, at the same time they need to make their own accumulated knowledge and experience passed on to employees, enhance the entire team's learning ability, innovation ability and adapt to market changes ability to play a team role and value of the whole.Relative to other issues of entrepreneur social capital research, this study mainly reflected the innovation and development in the following areas: (1) This article from the perspective of the relationship resources to divide entrepreneurs social capital into entrepreneur market social capital, entrepreneur technology social capital, entrepreneur government social capital, and entrepreneur financial social capital, on the basis of the previous scholars'measurement scale on entrepreneur social capital, I carried out a partial revision, and verified measurement accuracy of the new scale; (2) In this paper, I employed empirical research methods to analyze the impact of enterprise social capital on technological innovation performance with 120 Northeast companies. I exploratory analysis the impact of entrepreneur social capital on technological innovation performance, and built a research model, to some extent, enriched social capital theory of entrepreneurship-related research, and made it more localized and regional, other areas of our research also has some reference; (3) In this paper, I employed the absorption capacity as intermediary variables of entrepreneur social capital and technological innovation performance, and empirical studies confirmed that the absorption capacity can be intermediary variables of entrepreneur social capital and technological innovation performance, provides a supplementary for the follow-up study of entrepreneur social capital theory.
Keywords/Search Tags:entrepreneur social capital, absorptive capacity, technology innovation performance
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