SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IN TUNISIA: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION

Abidi Hana and Bichri Ridha
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Abidi Hana: Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et de Gestion de Jendouba, Jendouba, Tunisia
Bichri Ridha: Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et de Gestion de Jendouba, Jendouba, Tunisia

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2023, vol. 27, issue 03n04, 1-33

Abstract: The last two decades represented a scarce discussion of social capital and its effect on social enterprises’ organizational performance in developing economies like Tunisia. The main objective of this research is to analyze the effect of social capital on the organizational performance of social enterprises working in the context of developing economies. This research tested the mediating role of social innovation in the relationship between social capital and the economic and social performance of social enterprises. A sample of 120 social enterprises was subjected to both a correlational analysis and a regression analysis. The results confirmed that all the predictor constructs significantly elucidated the consequence constructs. Mediation analysis results also confirm that social innovation mediates the association between social capital and organizational performance. This study enriches the available theory by evaluating the mediating role of social innovation, thus making a significant contribution to the prevailing theory contextualizing the social enterprises of developing economies by emphasizing the relations among social capital, social innovation, and organizational performance. The present study encourages managers and policymakers of social enterprises to give their social capital growth major consideration and to consider it an essential aspect of strategic management.

Keywords: Social capital; social innovation; economic performance; social performance; social enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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