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The Mediating Role of Knowledge Acquisition on the Relationship Between External Social Capital and Innovativeness
Author(s) -
ParraRequena Gloria,
RuizOrtega María José,
GarcíaVillaverde Pedro Manuel,
RodrigoAlarcón Job
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1111/emre.12049
Subject(s) - social capital , business , test (biology) , knowledge management , knowledge acquisition , empirical research , cognition , marketing , psychology , sociology , computer science , social science , paleontology , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , biology
In this paper we analyse how external social capital affects innovativeness through knowledge acquisition. Specifically, we test the effect of density, trust and cognitive proximity on the innovativeness of firms and the mediating role of external knowledge acquisition to explain these relationships. We focus our empirical study upon the footwear industry in S pain, using partial least squares to test the proposed hypotheses. The main contribution of this study is to demonstrate how knowledge acquisition leads the firm's external social capital to innovativeness.