Research On Impact Of Social Capital On Knowledge Acquisition Based On The Informal Networks

With the globalization of politics and economy changing the environment of enterprises,how the enterprises get competitive advantage in this environment continually has been putforward. According to the strategic management and knowledge management scholars,knowledge is an important source of competitive advantage. Besides in work flow increasingorganizational performance, knowledge has used to fight competitors, and reach the strategicgoals of enterprises as an important strategic core resources. Knowledge successfully replacematerial resources and labor capital to become the enterprise strategic resources. How theenterprises obtain and share their knowledge efficiently, and transfer in the organization becomesthe top issue facing the organization. Therefore the enterprise have more motivation to realizeknowledge acquisition. However, there are many obstacles in the process of knowledgeacquisition. The Scholars of knowledge acquisition area has made much research, including thenature of knowledge, knowledge transfer process, the influence factors. Social capital is animportant view on knowledge acquisition.Social capital is one of the most abundant discussion related to knowledge acquisition. Theconcept of social capital originates sociology, now Management scholars use to discuss theimportant role of social capital in the enterprise. After the physical capital and human capital,social capital is payed attention as the third kind of social capital of enterprise. Social capitalbetween people and people, enterprise and enterprise, containing network,trust, rules, helpscoordination to improve the efficiency of resource allocation.This paper mainly aim to explore the social capital and knowledge acquisition,containing therelation of them. The study angle choose informal network. Specific content includes: literaturereview on social capital and the definition of social capital in this paper, then select the Angle;Then existing research on knowledge acquisition was summarized, including the nature of thetacit knowledge, the influence factors of knowledge acquisition; And the network structure andtrust from two aspects discusses the social capital on the influence of knowledge acquisition,including social cohesion, network range, interpersonal trust set up three aspects; At last this paper put forward the research conclusion and insufficiency.