Is Individualism a Predictor of Social Capital in Business Incubators?

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2013-06-01

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Aşcıgil, Semra Feriha

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This paper examines whether entrepreneurs’ individualism is related to their perceptions of social capital within a business incubator of which their company is a tenant. Social capital is a resource derived from the content and structure of social relations among incubator tenants. Questionnaire data from managers of tenant companies of five incubators established by the State Privatization Office of the Turkish Republic were analyzed with regression. Individualism had a positive relationship with perceptions of structural social capital and cognitive social capital, but was not related to perceptions of relational social capital.

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http://www.na-businesspress.com/JMPP/AscigilSF_Web14_5_.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/75171

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Journal of Management Policy and Practice

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Department of Business Administration, Article

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S. F. Aşcıgil, “Is Individualism a Predictor of Social Capital in Business Incubators?,” Journal of Management Policy and Practice, pp. 113–119, 2013, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: http://www.na-businesspress.com/JMPP/AscigilSF_Web14_5_.pdf.