...Chiara Ancillai; Sara Bartoloni; Jelena Filipovic; Valerio Temperini Purpose The study’s purpose is to understand how online communities, thanks to their knowledge-sharing potential, can help to achieve the principles of a human-centered society. The social capital theory is applied to understand...

... transformation a key driver of corporate change. This study examines the impact of internal and external factors, such as social capital, absorptive capacity and government support, in facilitating open social innovation and digital transformation activities, which may ultimately enhance business performance...

..., social capital, and cognition – as a direct antecedent to digital firms' innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach The study draws on survey data from German Industry 4.0 manufacturing firms, which were analyzed using regression analysis. Findings The results confirm managers' dynamic...

... model's validity and reliability and to test the research hypothesis. Findings The empirical evidence indicates that during this pandemic the relationship between social capital and service innovation capability was fully mediated by strategic environmental scanning, while partially mediating...

...Seyedeh Zahra Fatemi; Samaneh Sadeghian; S. Fatemeh Ghasempour Ganji; Lester W. Johnson Purpose Considering the importance of innovation in organizations and the formation of innovative behaviors (IBs) in the life of the organization, the authors study the effect of moderating social capital (SC...

...Samar Hayat Khan; Abdul Majid; Muhammad Yasir; Asad Javed Purpose This research aims to concentrate on the important concern that how social capital (SC) influences business model innovation (BMI) in the course of the mediating role of organizational learning capabilities (OLC) and the moderating...

...Bismark Duodu; Steve Rowlinson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance new insights into how internal and external social capital (SC) facets influence exploratory and exploitative innovation directly, and indirectly through absorptive capability (AC), by drawing on the relational...

... evidence of interaction mechanism in open innovation system specific to aesthetic innovation in the creative sector. Strategic alliance and social capital are key theoretical underpinning of this research. This is a response to previous research stating that the link between open innovation and social...

... reviews recent literature related to the roles of absorptive capacity (AC) and social capital (SC) in interaction. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case research on developing collaborations between UAS and small- and medium-sized enterprises for innovation activities. Findings...

...Miguel Linhares Pinheiro; José Carlos Pinho; Cândida Lucas Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw insights from the actors-resources-activities (ARA) model and social capital literature to identify relevant activities shared by university-industry (U-I) actors prior to R&D cooperation...

...Anastasia Petrou; Irene Daskalopoulou Purpose The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of social capital on innovation through the analysis of the selective nature of network alliances in the tourism sector which is subject to a complex competition – cooperation context. Design/methodology...

... of Formula 1 motor racing. Findings The findings show how social capital made up of “weak ties” in the form of informal personal networks, enabled an outsider to successfully make the leap to a new technological regime. Practical implications The findings show that where new product development...