... capabilities to explain the link among the structural social capital and the pioneering. Design/methodology/approach Focusing on a sample of 224 companies from the Spanish footwear industry, the authors used partial least squares (PLS) with PLS‐Graph software to analyse data. Findings The obtained...

..., and allocating resources (Lee, 2000 ; Simatupang et al., 2002). Supply chain management Industrial marketing Footwear industry A supply chain is defined as “the integration of key business processes from end user through original suppliers that provides products, services and information...