Social Capital and Learning Advantages: A Problem of Absorptive Capacity
| dc.cclicence | CC-BY-NC | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hughes, Mathew | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Robert E. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Ireland, R. Duane | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Hughes, Paul | en |
| dc.date.acceptance | 2013-04-15 | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-15T13:59:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-15T13:59:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-08-20 | |
| dc.description | The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Theoretically, social capital allows entrepreneurial firms to capitalize on learning advantages of newness and gain access to knowledge as the foundation for improved performance. But this understates its complexity. We consider whether learning through social capital relationships has a direct effect on performance and whether absorptive capacity mediates and moderates this relationship. We find that network-based learning has no direct relationship with performance, but this is mediated in each instance by absorptive capacity and is moderated twice. Our findings challenge the learning advantages of newness thesis and reveal how absorptive capacity can enable business performance from a firm's network relationships. | en |
| dc.exception.reason | Note that the accepted version of this paper was uploaded to the Durham University Online Repository as required and prior to me joining De Montfort University. | en |
| dc.explorer.multimedia | No | en |
| dc.funder | n/a | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hughes, M., Morgan, R. E., Ireland, R. D. and Hughes, P. (2014) Social Capital and Learning Advantages: A Problem of Absorptive Capacity. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 8 (3), pp. 214-233 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1162 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2086/13095 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.peerreviewed | Yes | en |
| dc.projectid | n/a | en |
| dc.publisher | Wiley | en |
| dc.researchinstitute | Centre for Enterprise and Innovation (CEI) | en |
| dc.subject | Social capital | en |
| dc.subject | Learning advantages of newness | en |
| dc.subject | absorptive capacity | en |
| dc.subject | network-based learning | en |
| dc.subject | entrepreneurial firms | en |
| dc.title | Social Capital and Learning Advantages: A Problem of Absorptive Capacity | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |