Social Capital and Firm Performance: Moderating Effect of Environmental Turbulence

Aluisius Hery Pratono, Rosli Mahmood
2014 Asian Social Science  
This study aims to determine the moderating effect of environmental turbulence on the relationship among firm performance, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial management, and social capital. Along with survey on Indonesia SMEs, the finding shows that social capital plays pivotal role on firm performance. This study also provides evident that that environmental turbulence dampens the positive impact of social capital on firm performance. Under low environmental turbulence, social
more » ... has positive impact on firm performance. However, social capital brings negative impact on firm performance during high environmental turbulence. This provides more fundamental issues on intersection between resource based view (RBV) and contingency theory (CT).
doi:10.5539/ass.v10n19p59 fatcat:ennifu26g5dljfbhw7vl3oa3gq