Social capital and innovation performance of digital firms: Serial mediation effect of cross-border knowledge search and absorptive capacity
Summary. Social capital significantly boosts innovation performance in Chinese digital firms, even during COVID-19. Cross-border knowledge search mediates this relationship for structural and relational capital but not cognitive capital. Absorptive capacity further strengthens the effect when combined with knowledge search. Digital firms should build social capital to enable cross-border knowledge acquisition and develop capacity to leverage diverse external knowledge for innovation.
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Lyu, C., Can, P., Yang, H., Li, H., & Gu, X.. (2022). Social capital and innovation performance of digital firms: Serial mediation effect of cross-border knowledge search and absorptive capacity. Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100187
Lyu, Chaolin, et al. “Social capital and innovation performance of digital firms: Serial mediation effect of cross-border knowledge search and absorptive capacity.” Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100187.
Lyu, Chaolin, Peng Can, Hong Yang, Hui Li, and Xiaoyan Gu. 2022. “Social capital and innovation performance of digital firms: Serial mediation effect of cross-border knowledge search and absorptive capacity.” Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100187.
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title = {Social capital and innovation performance of digital firms: Serial mediation effect of cross-border knowledge search and absorptive capacity},
author = {Chaolin Lyu and Peng Can and Hong Yang and Hui Li and Xiaoyan Gu},
journal = {Journal of Innovation & Knowledge},
year = {2022},
doi = {10.1016/j.jik.2022.100187},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jik.2022.100187}
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- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jik.2022.100187
- Countries
- China
- Regions
- Asia
- Categories
- innovation-networks, broadband-and-digital, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28