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The Influence of Structural and Relational Social Capital on Innovative Culture and Behaviour in SMEs

구조적.관계적 사회적자본이 혁신문화와 행위에 미치는 영향: 중소기업사례를 중심으로

  • Received : 2013.10.29
  • Accepted : 2013.12.03
  • Published : 2013.12.30
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Abstract

Although several studies show close relationships between social capitals and their performances, a little is known about specific social capitals and their effects on organizational culture and behaviour leading to their innovative outcomes within small and medium sized enterprises(: SMEs). This study examines some dimensions of social capitals and their influences on creating innovative culture and employees' behaviour. The importance of these are regarded as an imperative for SMEs to overcome the inequality of financial leverage and competitive power over resources. For the empirical analysis, survey data were collected from 51 domestic SMEs and analyzed by partial least squares(: PLS) that is one of popular structural modeling and multi-variate projection techniques to latent variables. The findings confirm a positive support of social capitals and their influences on the innovative culture and bahaviour. This result implies that managing the capability of social capitals is important for SMEs to develop the innovative culture and bahaviour and create a competitive advantage.

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Supported by : 한라대학교

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