Organizational Advantage, Social Capital and Organizational Learning

According to the knowledge-based view, the organizational advantage of firms over market comes from their ability in acquiring and creating knowledge through learning. In this study, organizational learning is conceptualized as a process of social interaction, which is promoted and constrained by the structural, relational and cognitive dimension of social capital. Based on a dynamic perspective, we also distinguish the sources of social capital and argue that organizational learning is conductive to the development of social capital in return. A framework is provided to show how firms achieve organizational advantage through the coevolution of social capital and organizational learning.