Network closure or structural hole? The conditioning effects of network-level social capital on innovation performance

• Autores: Justin Tan, Hongjuan Zhang, Liang Wang
• Localización: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, ISSN-e 1540-6520, Vol. 39, Nº. 5, 2015, págs. 1189-1212
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study contributes to the bonding–bridging debate in the social capital literature by examining the conditioning effects of collective social capital. Data generated from simulation reveals that network density, a measure of network-level social capital, negatively moderates the impacts of firm-level social capitals, measured separately by degree centrality and structural hole, on a firm's innovation performance. Specifically, in low-density networks, degree centrality and structural holes are complementary at enhancing innovation performance. In high-density networks, the positive impact of degree centrality weakens and structural holes turn out to be detrimental. The findings not only advance our understanding of the cross-level dynamics of social capital, but also provide a possible explanation for the mixed empirical results found in previous studies