Title: Relationship among social capital, innovation and performance: a preliminary investigation in India

Authors: Harsha Desai; Kiran Desai

Addresses: The Sellinger School, Loyola University Maryland, 4500 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21210, USA ' Department of Management and Marketing, School of Business, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana 70609, USA

Abstract: We investigated the relationships among social capital, innovation, and business performance and collected data from several relatively small size entrepreneurial firms in India. The analysis ended up using a sample of 41. The relationship between firm's social capital and performance is positive, that is as social capital increases, the performance increases. However this relationship was not significant; and the hypothesis is not supported. The relationship between firm's innovation and performance is positive; that is, as innovation increases, the performance increases. The hypothesis was supported. The relationship between the firm's social capital and innovation is curvilinear; that is, the relationship has an inverted '∩' shape.

Keywords: social capital; innovation; business performance; India; small firms; entrepreneurial firms; entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICBM.2013.056217

International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2013 Vol.7 No.3, pp.413 - 429

Published online: 30 Nov 2013 *

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