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Dimensions of Social Capital and Firm Competitiveness Improvement: The Mediating Role of Information Sharing
Author(s) -
Wu Weiping
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal of management studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.398
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1467-6486
pISSN - 0022-2380
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6486.2007.00741.x
Subject(s) - social capital , structural equation modeling , sample (material) , business , relational capital , information sharing , capital (architecture) , industrial organization , empirical research , microeconomics , economics , intellectual capital , sociology , social science , philosophy , statistics , chemistry , mathematics , archaeology , finance , chromatography , epistemology , political science , law , history
This study investigates the mediating role of information sharing in the relationships between dimensions of social capital and firm competitiveness, thereby positing a possible explanation for the divergent empirical results of the social capital–performance relationship in the existing literature. The study uses a sample of 108 Hong Kong‐based Chinese family‐owned firms from the manufacturing sector. Largely supporting the theoretical predictions, the results from multiple regression and structural equation model tests show that information sharing plays a mediating role in the relationships between three dimensions of social capital (trust, network ties, and repeated transactions) and firm competitiveness improvement.