Mediation Effect of Adaptive Planning between Social Capital and Business Innovation: Application to a Community of Pisco Producers in Peru

José A. Avalo-Ortega, José L. Yagüe-Blanco, Arístides Vara-Horna and Guillermo Cangahuala Allain
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José A. Avalo-Ortega: Department of Agroforestry Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
José L. Yagüe-Blanco: Department of Agroforestry Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Arístides Vara-Horna: Facultad de Ciencias Administrativas y Recursos Humanos, Universidad de San Martín de Porres, 15009 Lima, Peru
Guillermo Cangahuala Allain: Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidad de Piura, 15074 Lima, Peru

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: This study addresses the effects linking adaptive planning and social capital that drive business innovation. A case study has been selected that involves a community of pisco producers, grouped around a production innovation and technology transfer center (CITE agroindustrial) in the southern part of Lima, Peru. The study examines how their perceptions have changed over a six-year period (2012–2018). Results show the mediation effect that adaptive planning—promoted through CITE activities—has between social capital and innovation, which is also strengthened over time. In conjunction with this, a route is investigated for business innovation that goes further than the need–opportunity dichotomy, through associative and collaborative behaviors, and adaptive planning that stands out thanks to its actors (the community of producers). This represents a path for transforming needs into opportunities for innovation and development.

Keywords: business innovation; adaptive planning; social capital; structural equation modeling; Peru (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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