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Network behaviours, social capital, and organisational learning in high-growth entrepreneurial firms
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-05, 09:00 authored by Mathew Hughes, Robert E. Morgan, R. Duane Ireland, Paul HughesDespite recent conceptual and theoretical insights into social capital, little is known about the behaviours that generate social capital and how social capital influences organisational learning. The difficulty this gap creates for young entrepreneurial firms is that their managers understand little about how to strategically develop firm behaviour in an effort to create social capital, which is expected to be a powerful means for such firms to overcome their liabilities of newness. Adopting a business incubation context, we present data from UK business incubates testing relationships among network behaviours (resource sharing, shared beliefs, tolerance of incubator management, and strategic network participation), social capital (localised and externalised), and organisational learning (accelerated learning and knowledge assimilation). We find that network behaviours have contrasting effects in generating localised and externalised social capital and both types of social capital differentially influence accelerated learning and knowledge assimilation.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
Published in
International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small BusinessVolume
12Issue
3Pages
257 - 272Citation
HUGHES, M. ... et al., 2011. Network behaviours, social capital, and organisational learning in high-growth entrepreneurial firms. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 12 (3), pp.257-272.Publisher
© InderscienceVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2011ISSN
1476-1297eISSN
1741-8054Publisher version
Language
- en