企业社会资本对营销渠道策略的影响

社会资本对企业的经营能力和经济效益有直接的提升作用,本文利用社会资本理论与渠道理论,建立了企业社会资本对渠道策略的影响模式,从企业社会资本的结构维度、关系维度和认知维度,研究其对渠道设计、渠道冲突解决和渠道绩效管理的影响,在分析这些影响的基础上提出从网络结构、共同信仰等方面拓展渠道,优化分销网络;利用信任、规范机制、制度与信仰等解决渠道冲突;利用信任、合作、互惠规范、外部相关关联的网络,改善市场绩效的对策。     

高管团队的社会资本对并购绩效影响研究

本文将高管团队外部社会资本分为嵌入在校友网络的社会资本、嵌入在政治联系的社会资本和嵌入在行业网络的社会资本三个维度,在总结前人研究成果的基础之上分析了高管团队嵌入三种不同的社会网络的社会资本与并购绩效之间的关系,并对高管团队的结构连结、关系连结和认知连结三种维度的内部社会资本与并购绩效之间的关系进行研究。     

社会资本、知识获取与企业新产品开发能力关系研究

本研究基于知识基础观及社会资本理论,构建了社会资本、知识获取与企业新产品开发能力的概念模型。研究结果表明,社会资本的结构维度、关系维度和认知维度均显著影响知识获取和企业新产品开发能力,知识获取在社会资本对企业新产品开发能力影响中具有显著的调节作用。     

家族社会资本、创业导向与初创期企业成长绩效关系研究

文章以135家企业为样本,运用多元回归分析与结构方程模型对家族社会资本、创业导向及企业成长绩效三者之间的关系进行了实证研究。结果表明,结构资本对创新性具有显著的正面影响,关系资本对风险承担性具有显著的正面影响,而创新性和先动性受到认知资本的影响。同时,结构资本能够提高企业的竞争绩效,关系资本有助于企业竞争绩效和潜力绩效的提高,而认知资本对企业潜力绩效具有显著的促进作用。在家族社会资本、创业导向和初创期企业成长绩效的关系链中,创业导向具有显著的中介作用。     

社会资本对电商企业营销绩效的作用机理研究

电商企业因其具有较高的创新活力,对经济与社会的发展具有不可或缺的作用.本文通过实地调研等方式,获取到电商企业的相关数据,以社会资本理论与知识管理理论为基础,采用OLS回归等实证方法,得出社会资本的结构因素、关系因素与认知因素均对电商企业营销绩效有显著的正向影响;知识分享在关系因素对营销绩效的正向影响中具有完全中介效应,...     

企业内社会资本对企业绩效影响的实证分析

本文基于197份来自不同省市的调查问卷结果,分析了企业内社会资本的构面及其对企业绩效的影响,结果表明,企业内社会资本是由结构、关系和认知三个维度构成,社会资本的结构面、关系面和认知面与企业绩效显著正相关的,结构面的社会资本与企业绩效的相关系数略高于关系面和认知面的社会资本与企业绩效的相关系数.因此,要提高企业绩效,既要注重结构面社会资本的建设,也要注重社会资本的关系面和认知面的培育.     

社会资本怎样影响生育意愿 ——基于CGSS数据的实证研究

本文运用2015年中国综合社会调查(CGSS)的数据,将社会资本视作社会非正式保障,从社会信任和社交网络两个方面就个人社会资本对女性生育意愿的影响展开实证分析,并进行内生性问题的讨论和检验.研究结果表明,社会资本对育龄女性的生育意愿具有显著的正向影响,其主要作用在于减少育儿成本而非形成一定的养老保障;亲戚关系和朋友关系对女性生育意愿的影响是不同的,亲戚关系作为强关系有利于增强女性的生育意愿.最后,本文根据经验证据提出相关的政策启示.     

供应链合作关系资本分析——基于社会网络与社会资本视角

供应链是一种具有代表性的企业竞争模式。理解并管理供应链合作关系对于优化供应链管理意义重大。借鉴社会网络与资本理论的研究,从关系资本的视角研究供应链价值创造的源泉。将供应链合作关系资本划分为:关系供应链资本、认知供应链资本、结构供应链资本,并分析不同形态关系资本的本质与构成。     

企业社交媒体行为对网络嵌入治理的影响研究：基于社会网络理论的视角

基于社会网络理论,文章探究企业社交媒体行为对网络嵌入治理的影响,即制造商企业不同社交媒体行为如何促进网络嵌入治理以及合作伙伴网络结构嵌入特点能否强化上述关系。文章以制造商和经销商的合作关系为研究情境,从制造商角度收集308份问卷,实证检验结果表明：社交媒体任务交互行为和关系交互行为均正向影响网络嵌入治理;经销商网络密度增强社交媒体任务交互行为对网络嵌入治理的正向影响,而与文章预期相反的是,经销商网络中心性无法增强社交媒体关系交互行为对网络嵌入治理的正向影响。文章丰富了跨组织关系管理领域关于社交媒体使用的讨论,并从社会网络层面关注跨组织关系治理问题,为企业寻求和建立一条新的跨组织关系治理机制提供决策依据。     

企业社会资本对渠道权力与依赖的影响

传统渠道权力与依赖研究将研究视野局限在由两个渠道成员构成的二元渠道关系内,关注关系内的资源依赖特征而缺少对关系以外更大范围的渠道关系网络的关注。针对这一缺陷,文章引入了社会资本理论,并实证性地考察了制造商社会资本对其渠道权力和经销商依赖的影响。研究发现,制造商的社会资本对其渠道权力有显著的正向影响,但对经销商的渠道依赖没有显著影响。同时,以中国本土社会心理学理论为基础,研究证实在中国文化背景下渠道权力作为依赖的前因变量对其有显著的正向影响。     

Hindering or enabling structural social capital to enhance buyer performance? The role of relational social capital at two levels in China

Purpose: In its cognitive, relational, and structural forms, social capital has been identi?ed as a powerful strategic tool. However, prior empirical studies focus only on the direct effect of various dimensions of social capital and address relational social capital at either a dyadic level or a network level. Drawing on the social capital theory and social network theory, this study fills the above-mentioned gaps by examining the role of structural and relational social capital on performance through exploring direct and interaction effects simultaneously and revealing the moderating effect of relational social capital at the dyadic and network levels (including business ties and political ties) simultaneously.

Methodology/Approach: Based on data for 393 distributors from China, a moderated regression analysis is used to test the hypotheses.

Findings: The empirical test generally supports the hypotheses and indicates that the value of structural social capital is conditional on both curvilinear and linear moderating effects of relational social capital: the moderating effects of business ties on the structural social capital–buyer performance relationship is inverted U-shaped, while the moderating effects of relational social capital at the dyadic level and political ties on the structural social capital–buyer performance relationship is positive.

Research Implications: This study incorporates all three dimensions of social capital, represents one of the first attempts to examine the interplay between structural and relational social capital in emerging economies, explores relational social capital at the dyadic and network levels simultaneously, and responses to the fact that buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs) are embedded within a larger context of social networks. By addressing these issues, this study sheds new light on the individual and joint impact of various dimensions of social capital and provides new evidence on both the positive and negative aspects of social capital in a single model.

Practical Implications: The results provide important implications for managers in addressing social capital in an emerging economy. In order to improve performance, managers should first encourage and foster frequent, diverse, scarce, and high-quality information exchange and interactions to accumulate structural social capital. Additionally, managers should not only emphasize relational social capital building and development in BSRs, but also pay attention to the cultivation of relational social capital among the business network. They should acknowledge the persistent positive effect of political ties and the potential negative effect of business ties.

Originality/Value/Contribution: First, few studies examine both the individual and synergetic effects of various dimensions of social capital in a single model or explicitly explore relational social capital in a dyadic relationship and deeply consider it at the network level in a single model. This study addresses these issues.     

Does the Ethical Leadership of Supervisors Generate Internal Social Capital?

Ethics has recently gained prominence in debates surrounding social capital creation. Despite the significant theoretical progress in this field, it still lacks empirical research. The goal of this study is to empirically explore the ethical leadership of supervisors as an antecedent of the firm’s social capital. We build on social learning theory to argue that employees can learn standards of appropriate behavior by observing the behavior of role models. By displaying and enforcing ethical behavior, supervisors can facilitate the process through which employees learn to feel empathy toward others and establish profound affective relationships with them. Data were collected from 408 Spanish, French, and Portuguese part-time MBA students. Using structural equation modeling techniques, we show that the ethical leadership of supervisors exerts a significant influence on the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital.     

Roles of Social Capital in Venture Creation: Key Dimensions and Research Implications*

This study was built upon Nahapiet and Ghoshal's three dimensions of social capital—structural, relational, and cognitive. It addresses three research questions: (1) Are there significant differences in social capital between nascent entrepreneurs and the general public (control group)? (2) Are there significant differences in social capital between technology and nontechnology nascent entrepreneurs? (3) How do the three dimensions of social capital interact among themselves across different sample groups? These questions were examined by using the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics data set. Results suggest that there are no significant differences in various dimensions of social capital between nascent entrepreneurs and the general public. What differentiates the two groups is not the amount of social capital but the patterns of association among its different dimensions. Additionally, the authors found that technology‐based nascent entrepreneurs tend to have a higher degree of relational capital than their nontechnology counterparts. Implications and future research directions are discussed.     

Knowledge acquisition and the foreign development of high-tech start-ups: A social capital approach

In this paper, we use social capital theory to discuss the growth of “international new ventures”, aiming to verify whether or not social capital may be considered as a critical source of knowledge acquisition abroad. We analyse social capital embedded in vertical relationships between global high-tech start-ups and their largest single foreign customer. Our findings confirm that while the structural dimension of social capital is positively associated with greater knowledge acquisition, both relational and cognitive dimensions are negatively linked to knowledge acquisition.     

A mediation model between dimensions of social capital

Our paper contributes to the growing research by examining the interrelations between the dimensions of capital and their effects on the international market share of multinational companies in the global contractors industry. Previous works on social capital have failed to study the interrelationships between its dimensions or have proposed models with direct relationships. The current study proposes a multiple mediating model and tests the mediation. In particular, we posit that the relational and resource dimensions play a mediating role in the structural dimension-international market share relationship. A variance-based structural equation modeling (Partial Least Squares) has been applied to a sample made up of 225 global contractors. Our analysis lends support to the importance of the central positions of a firm and their influence on international market share. Moreover, mediation hypotheses posit how the relational and resource dimensions play a critical mediating role in the structural dimension – international market share relationship. Analysis of the data suggest that the dimensions of social capital are interrelated in such a way that the relational and resource dimensions: (a) fully mediate the effect of centrality (structural dimension) on the international share market and (b) exert significant influence on the international market share of each company.     

Socially Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Suppliers’ Social Performance: The Role of Social Capital

The implementation of socially sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices (i.e. assessment and collaboration) to tackle suppliers’ social deficiencies (e.g. the use of child labour) often requires a level of cooperation that can be difficult to establish. Despite this daunting challenge, scant scholarly attention has been paid to explore how the implementation of socially SSCM practices can be effectively facilitated and enhanced. Drawing on social capital theory, this study examines the individual impact of assessment and collaboration practices on suppliers’ social performance and explores whether and how these effects can be moderated (strengthened) by the level of social capital (i.e. relational, cognitive, and structural) embedded in the buyer–supplier relationship. Based on a survey of 119 manufacturing companies in the UK, we found that assessment practices are less likely to influence suppliers to improve social performance compared to collaboration practices. However, when relational and structural capital are manifested in the relationship, assessment practices become significant in driving suppliers’ social performance. We also found that the positive impact of collaboration practices is more pronounced when relational and cognitive capital are established in the relationship. This paper contributes to the growing socially SSCM literature by disentangling the vital and relative importance of social capital dimensions on the implementation of socially SSCM practices.

     

社会资本理论视角的企业慈善捐赠行为研究

企业慈善捐赠行为是企业履行企业社会责任的重要方式。本文站在社会网络的视角,基于社会资本理论分析了企业履行社会责任的慈善捐赠行为。结果表明:企业慈善捐赠行为能够提高企业所处网络其它主体对它的信任度和义务认同度,可以提高企业的社会资本丰度;企业慈善捐赠行为对社会资本的纵向关系资本、横向关系资本和社会关系资本三个维度都具有积极的影响,各分维度社会网络主体往往更倾向与慈善企业建立连结关系。     

虚拟社区成员强化动机对品牌选择行为的作用机理

网络社交媒介的涌现导致企业越来越趋向于以虚拟品牌社区的方式进行产品营销,并试图通过这种方式将企业品牌形象深植到消费者心中,进而形成较高的品牌忠诚度。鉴于此,可基于社会网络、品牌社区等理论,构建社会强化动机、网络中心度及虚拟品牌社区成员品牌选择行为之间关系的理论模型,进而通过设计问卷对虚拟社区成员进行调研,检验社会强化动机对虚拟品牌社区成员品牌忠诚度的作用机理,探究网络中心度在虚拟品牌社区强化动机与品牌选择行为之间的中介作用。研究发现,社会强化动机能有效提高虚拟社区成员的程度中心度和中介中心度;虚拟社区成员的程度中心度和中介中心度越高,社会强化动机越强,其对虚拟社区的归属感越强;成员的社区归属感越强,越倾向于保护自己的品牌并抵制竞争品牌。由此可见,企业为更好地进行虚拟品牌社区管理,需要注重对成员社会强化动机的激发,鼓励成员参与社区活动;需要重点关注网络中心度高的成员,激发其信息分享热情;需要致力于虚拟品牌社区建设,不断增强成员归属感。