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Impact of Entrepreneur Social Capital on Business Model Innovation: From an Organizational Learning Perspective

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DOI: 10.25236/ICSM.2019.060

Author(s)

Liming Zhang, Gang Xiao, Xuewu Chen and Guichuan Zhou

Corresponding Author

Guichuan Zhou

Abstract

The development of globalization has broken the geographical boundaries, the emergence of Internet technology has broken the barriers of the industry. In the 21st century, enterprises are facing competition from different parts of the world and industries. Through business model innovation, companies can realize sustainable competitive advantage. Entrepreneur social capital can promote the innovation of enterprises by integrating external resources that acquired by entrepreneur social capital. However, the existing research is still controversial about whether entrepreneur social capital can promote business model innovation, and the path of influence between the two is not clear. On the base of above appoints, it mainly studies whether entrepreneur social capital promotes business model innovation, and whether organizational learning plays an intermediary role in the relationship between entrepreneur social capital and business model innovation. The main conclusions are as follows: Entrepreneur social resources is positively associated with business model innovation; Entrepreneur social capital is positively associated with organizational learning; Organizational learning has a mediating effect on the relationship between entrepreneur social capital and business model innovation.

Keywords

Entrepreneur social capital; organizational learning; business model innovation