Erratum: Green intellectual capital and environmental product innovation: the mediating role of green social capital

Purpose This study aims to investigate the external knowledge search behaviors in terms of search breadth and search depth in family firms and the resultant product innovation in Indian context. The authors theorize the mediating role of absorptive capacity (potential and realized absorptive capacity) between knowledge sourcing from external sources and product innovation. Further, the authors examine the moderating role of crucial internal social capital of the family firm in enhancing the use of external knowledge for firm innovation activities. Design/methodology/approach The study uses a quantitative research design taking single informant for collection of data from 151 family small and medium enterprises in automotive sector in India. The authors use structural equation modeling to test hypothesized relationships. Findings The findings indicate that both search breadth and search depth of family firms are positively associated with product innovation in family firms. The authors also find evidence for partial mediating role of potential and realized absorptive capacity in the relationship between search breadth and innovation and search depth and innovation. The results show how family firms learning taking place while scanning external knowledge sources in terms of external absorptive capacity routines. Finally, the authors find that family firm internal social capital positively moderate the relationship between search breadth and depth, and product innovation. Practical implications Family firms need to innovate to remain relevant in the long-run and as such development of superior capabilities is of great significance to them. Family firm managers must be open to external knowledge as such knowledge help them improve the firm level of innovation through absorptive capacity. Further, family firms must realize and act upon the importance of their social capital for the integration and utilization of acquired knowledge. Originality/value This paper is amongst a few papers that take dynamic capability views of innovation in family firms wherein the authors theorize how external search breadth and depth lead to the development of potential and realized absorptive capacity in family firms. The importance of family firm internal social capital as a strong integrating and knowledge sharing mechanism that helps family firms transform external knowledge into innovation is also highlighted.

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Improving Tourism Innovation Performance: Linking Perspectives of Asset Specificity, Intellectual Capital, and Absorptive Capacity

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research ◽

10.1177/1096348020927453 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 44 (6) ◽

pp. 908-930

Author(s):

AiHua Wu

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Human Capital ◽

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Intellectual Capital ◽

Asset Specificity ◽

Innovation Performance ◽

Intermediate Level ◽

Managerial Practices ◽

Mediating Role

This study seeks to better understand the link of a tourism firm’s intellectual capital to innovation performance, empirically testing the mediating role of absorptive capacity and moderating effect of asset specificity. Findings from 217 Chinese tourism firms indicate that absorptive capacity plays a mediating role in the capital–performance link, and the effect of social capital to absorptive capacity is highest when asset specificity is at an intermediate level, having an inverted “U” shape. The result indicates that the effect of the human capital is “U” shape with asset specificity. Thus, the findings make a few new important insights to the tourism innovation literature and also offer a number of vital implications for tourism managerial practices.

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The Intellectual Capital, Firm Performance and the Moderating Role of Manager Skills

Business Management and Strategy ◽

10.5296/bms.v11i2.17524 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Hoang Thanh Nhon

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Firm Performance ◽

Conceptual Framework ◽

Intellectual Capital ◽

Organizational Capital ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Human And Social Capital ◽

The Relationship ◽

Moderating Role

The purpose of this article was to explore the moderating role of the manager skills on the relationship between the intangible capitals and firm performance. Specific aims included (a) to synthesize the prior literatures and definitions related to human, organizational and social capital, firm performance and manager skills, (b) to refine conceptual definitions of the human and social capital with associated conceptual antecedent, organizational capital, and consequences, firm performances, (c) to propose a synthesized conceptual framework guiding the mediated moderation of the manager skills on the relationship between intangible capitals and firm performance. The analysis include data collected from a survey with the total of 370 information communication technology (ICT) firm’s managers. The mediating and moderating techniques are used to analyze the indirect effects of organizational capital on firm performance via human and social capital and the moderating role of manager skills on the relationship between intangible capitals and firm performance. The results show that all intangible capital dimensions have direct impacts on firm performance. In addition, there is the existences of the mediating role of the human and social capital on the relationship between firm performance and organizational capital and moderating role of the manager skills on the relationship between intellectual capital dimensions and firm performance. This is the first paper to examine comprehensively the conceptual framework of the moderating role of manager skills on relationships between intangible capitals and firm performance in ICT sector in a developing country like Vietnam.

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The Mediating Role of Knowledge Sharing on Social Capital and Product Innovation among Tourism SMEs

Southern African Business Review ◽

10.25159/1998-8125/7721 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 24 ◽

Author(s):

David Pooe ◽

Watson Munyanyi

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Product Innovation ◽

Business Environment ◽

Tourism Industry ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Social Reciprocity ◽

The Relationship

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of knowledge sharing on social capital and product innovation among tourism SMEs in Zimbabwe. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative approach was adopted in this study and data was collected using an online survey, from owners and managers of small and medium enterprises in the tourism industry. The respondents were drawn using a simple random sampling technique from a database created and maintained by the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority of Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo participants. Covariance-based structural equation modelling was used to analyse the data and test the hypotheses proposed. Findings: The study found that both interorganisational trust and social reciprocity enhance product innovation in the tourism sector. It was also revealed that knowledge-sharing capability partially mediates the relationship between interorganisational trust and social reciprocity and product innovation. Research limitations/implications: By focusing on interorganisational trust and social reciprocity, this study was limited to the relational dimension of social capital, and this offers scope for future research. More research needs to be undertaken to explore the role of interorganisational trust and social reciprocity across other dimensions of social capital other than the relational attributes. It is also necessary to conduct longitudinal studies to capture variations in time and across sectors using more robust measures. Originality/value: The study expands on the existing line of scholarly work by providing a social dimension of the antecedents of product innovation. The findings suggest in the wake of resource limitation, firms in Zimbabwe may rely on interorganisational trust and social reciprocity to foster superior product innovation. In this knowledge-intensive business environment, this study also adds value by providing empirical evidence for the mediating role of knowledge-sharing capability in the relationship between interorganisational trust and social reciprocity, and product innovation.

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Intra-Organizational Social Capital and Product Innovation: The Mediating Role of Realized Absorptive Capacity

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2020.624189 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Beatriz Ortiz ◽

Mario J. Donate ◽

Fátima Guadamillas

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

New Product Development ◽

Absorptive Capacity ◽

Product Innovation ◽

Structural Equations ◽

Organizational Social Capital ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Pharmaceutical Industries ◽

Realized Absorptive Capacity

This paper examines the influence on product innovation of factors based on a company’s transformation and exploitation of knowledge gathered from its intra-organizational relationships. Specifically, this paper analyses the influence of intra-organizational social capital (SC) (i.e., comprised of structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions) on realized absorptive capacity (RACAP). Moreover, it analyses the mediating role of RACAP on the relationship between internal SC and product innovation. Based on a sample of companies from the Spanish biotechnological and pharmaceutical industries, two hypotheses were tested using a structural equations model and the partial least squares (PLS) technique. The results support both hypotheses, suggesting that the development of strong and tightly knit links based on a common understanding and trust among company members lead the firm to develop dynamic capabilities for transforming and exploiting knowledge acquired externally, which fosters innovation based on new product development. Research limitations, implications and future research are also discussed by the authors of the paper.

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Intellectual Capital and Technological Innovation: The Mediating Role of Supply Chain Learning

International Journal of Innovation Science ◽

10.1260/1757-2223.7.3.199 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 199-210 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Hui-Ying Zhang ◽

Shuang Lv

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Supply Chain ◽

Technological Innovation ◽

Intellectual Capital ◽

Two Dimensions ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Structural Capital ◽

The Relationship

This paper analyzes the influence of intellectual capital on firms’ technological innovation, and the intermediary effect of supply chain learning in the relationship between different dimensions of intellectual capital and technological innovation. Using a questionnaire to survey 167 Chinese high and medium-high technological manufacturing firms, our research provides a new insight with interesting results. (1) Among the four dimensions of intellectual capital, only two dimensions, internal social capital and external social capital, exert positive effect on technological innovation; (2) Among the two dimensions of supply chain learning, learning from both suppliers and customers exerts a significant effect on technological innovation, and learning from the customer has a more significant effect; (3) A complete intermediary effect occurs from supply chain learning in the relationship among human capital, structural capital and technological innovation, while an incomplete intermediary effect occurs from supply chain learning in the relationship among external social capital, internal social capital, and technological innovation.

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