Dual social capital, organizational learning, and penetrative innovation relationship

Abstract

Abstract: Clustered firms not only possess rich local social capital, but also enjoy extra-local social capital, while different types of social capital act on penetrative innovation with different mechanisms. Therefore, the mediation effect of organizational learning between social capital and incremental innovation is explored. The empirical analysis based on 169 clustered firms located in Zhejiang Province reveals that (1) Dual social capital has a distinctive effect on the two paradigms of organizational learning. Extra-local social capital is beneficial to explorative learning, and local social capital is beneficial to exploitative learning, respectively. (2) Taking one step ahead, explorative learning has a positive effect on radical innovation, while exploitative learning has a negative effect on that because of occupying resources.

Key words: dual social capital, explorative learning, exploitative learning, clustered firm

CLC Number:

270.7

Xu Lei, Wei Jiang, Shi Junna. Dual social capital, organizational learning, and penetrative innovation relationship[J]. Science Research Management, 2013, 34(5): 39-47.

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