Social Capital and Learning Advantages: A Problem of Absorptive Capacity
研究了创业企业通过社会资本关系学习是否直接提升绩效，发现吸收能力在其中起中介和调节作用，挑战了“新创企业学习优势”的观点。
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. Copyright © 2014 Strategic Management Society.