Investigating the impact of multidimensional social capital on equity crowdfunding performance

This research explores how social capital, in the multidimensional perspective using cognitive, relational and structural dimensions influences equity-crowdfunding (ECF) performance considering both the number of investors engaged and the funds collected. Our results demonstrate that cognitive dimensions in part affects ECF performance, in fact shared meaning has a little positive impact on both funding collected and the number of investors, while shared language has a negative effect on the investors involved. Both obligation and trustworthiness (relational dimension) positively influence ECF performance. Regarding the structural dimension, social network ties has positive effects on ECF performance, while social interactions has a positive impact on funding collected. The research contributes to the current literature on ECF and highlights new factors affecting ECF performance. The study has implications from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. The study findings will be relevant for entrepreneurs, platforms managers and policymakers and offers avenues for further research.     

社会资本:对技术创新的社会学诠释

社会资本为技术创新研究提供了新的研究方向。本文从理论和实践上阐述了社会资本与技术创新的关系 ,它表明 ,技术创新不仅是一个物质层面的创造工作 ,更是一个复杂的社会学过程。     

人力资本专用性、技术创新能力与新产品开发绩效关系研究——基于创新类型的实证分析

 探索专用性程度不同的人力资本对突破性创新能力和渐进性创新能力的影响、两种不同的技术创新能力对新产品开发绩效的影响以及专用性程度不同的人力资本在创新能力与绩效之间的调节作用。以我国157家企业为样本,以企业规模、R&D投入、环境的不确定性、需求不确定性和竞争强度作为控制变量,构建理论模型并进行检验。研究结果表明：人力资本的专用性越强,渐进性产品创新能力而非突破性产品创新能力越强。然而人力资本专用性较弱并不负面影响突破性产品创新能力对新产品绩效的效果,相反,对于渐进性产品创新能力来说,弱专用性人力资本有利于新产品绩效而强专用性人力资本不利于新产品绩效。     

社会资本与技术创新的扩散

技术创新扩散是社会性过程。作者在总结了社会资本概念和特征之后,把其应用于对技术创新扩散过程的研究,指出社会资本在促进隐性知识的传递与扩散、提高资源配置能力与技术创新扩散的速度、潜在采用者范围和采用者总量以及技术创新的数量和能力等方面有积极作用。     

Internet entrepreneurship: Social capital, human capital, and performance of Internet ventures in China

This article examines the interaction effects of social capital and human capital (experience) of entrepreneurs on the performance of Internet ventures. The empirical data are composed of the longitudinal surveys of 94 Internet ventures in Beijing, China. The study found that the interaction of social capital and Western experience of entrepreneurs has a positive effect on the survival likelihood of Internet firms whereas the interaction of social capital and startup experience of entrepreneurs has a negative effect on firm performance.     

社会资本、知识利用与共有协同创新绩效

已有研究将社会资本作为获取外部知识的渠道,隐含假设是社会资本具有知识流入效应。由于知识分享的相互性,社会资本实质上还具有知识流出效应。已有研究主要强调知识流入效应,是因为私有协同创新中的知识分享存在有意识的控制机制和组织边界,从而有效地抑制了知识流出。在共有协同创新网络中,创新团队间边界模糊且知识分享不受限制,导致知识流出效应显著增强。本文以共有协同创新网络为背景,探讨创新团队社会资本对新产品流行度的差异化影响以及如何控制该影响。通过收集开源平台SourceForge上1595个项目和8186个志愿者信息,结果发现创新团队度中心性对新产品流行度具有倒U型作用;桥中心性和接近中心性可提升新产品流行度。团队知识利用则有利于延缓社会资本的负面效应,强化其正面效应。     

Beyond industry–university links: Sourcing knowledge for innovation from consultants, private research organisations and the public science-base

This paper explores the use of specialist knowledge providers as sources of information in the innovation activities of manufacturing and service firms. Specialist knowledge providers are consultancies, private research organisations and the public science-base (i.e., universities and the government research laboratories). These may be engaged by firms in co-operative arrangement for innovation or as informal sources of information. We find, as anticipated, that amongst other factors specialist knowledge providers are more likely to be engaged by firms with more open approaches to innovation, those with high levels of absorptive capacity, those with greater social capital and networking capabilities, as well as by those with deeper commitments to innovation. Overall, the use of specialist knowledge providers tends to complement firms’ own internal innovation activities and to complement other external sources of knowledge. Moreover, the individual types of specialist knowledge providers tend to complement rather than substitute for one another. Beyond this we find significant differences in the types of specialist knowledge providers used by manufacturing and service firms. Although service firms are more likely than manufacturers to use specialist knowledge providers, they are more likely to engage consultants, whilst their links with research-based organisations, including the public science-base, are weaker. We ask whether there is a case for increasing the extent to which the public science-base undertakes activities that are relevant to innovation in the services.     

Social innovation and employment in the digital age: The case of the connect employment shuttles in Spain

The digital revolution has shaped the modern world in unprecedented ways. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the value of digital technologies. As the health crisis’ effect rippled through economic, political, and social structures worldwide, it also accelerated the adoption of digital tools to pool expertise, ideas, and capacities for generating solutions to the pandemic’s short- and long-term implications. One of the areas where major challenges have arisen is employment.In the whole panorama of digital social innovation in Spain, we find an experience that can be described as outstanding and that links employment and digitalization. However, despite being highly successful, there is hardly any academic literature on this experience. The Connect Employment Shuttles will be the subject of specific in-depth analysis in this article. This is a socially innovative program that has been developed since 2020 in collaboration with the Santa María la Real Foundation. The Connect Employment Shuttles are an existing model specialization, the Employment Shuttles, but applied in the field of digitalization. In this article, we present the origin of the Employment Shuttles and the differences between them and other labor market integration initiatives, their constituent elements, and the social impact they exert.The research question of our study is whether this innovative mechanism combining employment and digitalization is valid and reliable. The answer is particularly relevant for private and public entities interested in implementing effective measures against unemployment, especially in vulnerable groups. The main contribution of this study is the systematized presentation of the experience of the Connect Employment Shuttles and its results so far, being the major limitation is the scarcity and dispersion of information sources.     

Crowdsourcing for innovation: How related and unrelated perspectives interact to increase creative performance

In recent years, several organizations have opened up their innovation processes to individuals from outside of the organization by means of digital crowdsourcing. The literature on crowdsourcing has emphasized the importance of using digital technology to reach far beyond organizational boundaries and include individuals with (educational) backgrounds that are very different and unrelated to those within the organization in its innovation process. It has been argued that such individuals will contribute novel insights because they consider an organization's innovation challenge from different perspectives. Building on the literature on creativity and absorptive capacity, we instead argue that having a related perspective will positively affect an individual's idea performance, while unrelated perspectives only positively contribute to idea performance in combination with a related perspective. Analyses of 2178 ideas contributed by 948 crowd members to 68 crowdsourced idea challenges show that it is important to consider how (educational) backgrounds can provide individuals with multiple perspectives, which can be either related or unrelated, and study how the interplay of related and unrelated perspectives affects the value of ideas in organizational open innovation initiatives.     

企业知识资本价值评价初探

随着经济向知识化,产业化,信息化发展,企业的知识资本越来越成为一个企业发展前景的关键因素,在下个世纪,谁拥有知识,谁就能在竞争中取胜,本详细地论述了企业的知识资本价值,希望能为中国的企业提供了一些参考价值。     

推动风险投资发展,提高自主创新能力

总结了我国风险投资现状及所起的作用;分析了当前我国风险投资面临的重大发展机遇,特别是实施自主创新战略带来的巨大的发展空间;提出了发展风险投资、促进自主创新能力提升的五项对策。     

基于社会资本、知识整合的企业绩效创新研究

在企业的绩效创新中社会资本、知识整合的重要性日趋明显,本文主要论述了社会资本、知识整合和企业绩效创新的概念、相互间的关系及如何在基于社会资本、知识整合策略之上提升企业绩效创新的能力。     

Customer participation and new product performance: Towards the understanding of the mechanisms and key contingencies

In a study of 243 firms of varying sizes across 14 different industries, we investigate the effect of customer participation on new product development performance. We confirm that overall customer participation is positively related to new product development performance and that the effect is mediated by innovativeness. We also demonstrate that these effects are contingent upon absorptive capacity of the firm in question such that firms with high absorptive capacity stand to gain more from engaging their customers in new product development than firms with low absorptive capacity, especially at the later stages of the NPD process. The results are robust to alternative estimation techniques, measures employed to operationalize key concepts, and the industrial makeup of the sample. Post hoc analyses provide non-trivial managerial implications for the decision makers at the firm level.     

社会资本理论视角下科技期刊作者的忠诚度与提升策略

【目的】 分析影响作者对科技期刊忠诚度的因素,寻找提高作者忠诚度、提升科技期刊质量的对策。【方法】 基于社会资本理论,构建社会资本、沟通效率与作者忠诚度的结构方程模型,通过网络问卷调查《中国细胞生物学学报》的作者群体,采集数据,运用AMOS 17.0检验结构方程模型。【结果】 研究结果表明,结构维度的社会资本通过沟通效率间接提高作者忠诚度,关系维度和认知维度的社会资本不但直接提高作者忠诚度,而且通过沟通效率间接提高作者忠诚度。【结论】 科技期刊应加强与作者的沟通与交流,推动编辑与作者之间建立有效的信任关系,并在办刊宗旨和学术风格方面与作者形成一致的观点。     

网络强度和企业管理创新:社会资本的影响

前人的研究尚未将网络强度和社会资本结合起来分析其对企业管理创新的影响,也未考虑企业规模和研发投入对这些变量间的关系的作用。因此,本文纳入企业规模和研发投入作为控制变量,研究了社会资本、网络强度和企业管理创新的关系,构建了理论模型,并以申报广东省高新技术企业和民营科技型企业的企业为调查对象进行了实证检验。结果发现:(1)社会资本在网络强度和企业管理创新间起到完全中介作用。(2)在小规模企业中,网络强度与社会资本对企业管理创新不再产生显著的影响作用。研究结论弥补了相关研究的不足,对我国企业管理创新的提升具有指导意义。     

物流企业社会资本与服务创新类型及服务创新绩效的关系研究

基于社会资本理论和服务创新理论构建社会资本、服务创新类型和服务创新绩效三者之间关系的理论模型,并以213家物流企业为调查对象收集数据,运用结构方程模型探讨企业的社会资本在2种服务创新类型中介作用下对服务创新绩效的影响。研究结果表明,在不同的服务创新类型下,不同维度的社会资本对于服务创新的影响效果是显著不同的。     

Social capital,behavioural control,and tacit knowledge sharing—A multi-informant design

As suggested by prior studies, tacit knowledge sharing is a natural process of social interaction. The perspectives of social capital and behavioural control are thus employed in this study to investigate an employee's tacit knowledge sharing and behaviour within a workgroup. This study collects data through a multi-informant questionnaire design. Three interesting results were obtained in this study. First, results show that tacit knowledge sharing intention can be induced by affect-based trust. However, shared value is negatively related to tacit knowledge sharing intention. Second, internal control has a positive effect on tacit knowledge sharing intention, but the relationship between internal control and tacit knowledge sharing behaviour could not be confirmed. Third, external control positively moderates the relationship between tacit knowledge sharing intention and behaviour. It is interesting to note that tacit knowledge sharing intention does not necessarily lead to tacit knowledge sharing behaviour unless the moderating effect of external control is taken into account. These findings and their implications are also addressed.     

Examining supply chain collaboration with determinants and performance impact: Social capital,justice, and technology use perspectives

Supply chain collaboration is critical to achieving the integration of partners for performance impact. Two major concerns arise, organization's sharing behaviors and technology use behaviors. An organization's sharing behaviors relates to a decision of two perceptions among partners, commitment of network resources and fairness of network resources distribution. Further, technology use behaviors are important for members in IT-enabled supply chain. Social capital and justice issues intend to explain the two particular perceptions as IS success model defining technology use behaviors. This study integrates the three issues to examine their influence on supply chain collaboration and in turn, realized firm performance. Empirical findings report that technology use behaviors are most significant as other two issues are also concerned.     

Co-authorship networks and research impact: A social capital perspective

The impact of research work is related to a scholar's reputation and future promotions. Greater research impact not only inspires scholars to continue their research, but also increases the possibility of a larger research budget from sponsors. Given the importance of research impact, this study proposes that utilizing social capital embedded in a social structure is an effective way to achieve more research impact. The contribution of this study is to define six indicators of social capital (degree centrality, closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, prolific co-author count, team exploration, and publishing tenure) and investigate how these indicators interact and affect citations for publications. A total of 137 Information Systems scholars from the Social Science Citation Index database were selected to test the hypothesized relationships. The results show that betweenness centrality plays the most important role in taking advantage of non-redundant resources in a co-authorship network, thereby significantly affecting citations for publications. In addition, we found that prolific co-author count, team exploration, and publishing tenure all have indirect effects on citation count. Specifically, co-authoring with prolific scholars helps researchers develop centralities and, in turn, generate higher numbers of citations. Researchers with longer publishing tenure tend to have higher degree centrality. When they collaborate more with different scholars, they achieve more closeness and betweenness centralities, but risk being distrusted by prolific scholars and losing chances to co-author with them. Finally, implications of findings and recommendations for future research are discussed.     

论创新型国家的社会结构基础——为创新积累社会资本

 集中探讨了建设创新型国家需要什么样的社会结构基础的问题。现代社会中创新的基础已经从个体研究转化为研究者之间的互动以及由互动形成的社会网络,社会网络不仅促进了知识积累和新奇思想的产生,而且推动着新思想的商业化和扩散。与此同时,社会中的信任和规范对创新则起着保护的作用。因此,建设创新型国家所需的社会结构基础,可以归纳为一种“网络化和信任型的社会”,也就是一种蕴含着丰富的社会资本的社会结构。