Who you know and what you know: Impact of Multiple Network Embeddedness on Individual Innovation

Abstract

Considering the logical relationship between social network theory, innovation theory, and knowledge-based theory, we attempt to incorporate knowledge base, knowledge network, collaborative network, and knowledge innovation into the same research framework to construct a three-order moderating effect model. Moreover, we investigate the ways for characteristic structures of knowledge network and collaborative network to moderate the relationship between knowledge base and individual knowledge innovation. The outcomes reveal that the knowledge network centrality negatively moderates the relationship between the knowledge base breadth and individual knowledge innovation. However, its moderating effect is positively readjusted by the collaborative network structural holes.