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Innovations And Informal Institutions:An Institutionalist Approach To The Role Of Social Capital For Innovation

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  • Moina Rauf

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This article seeks to add to the debate on the role of informal institutions on innovations within firms. It argues that social capital arising from informal institutions can either help innovation or inhibit it within small enterprises. The paper attempts to provide a conceptual framework of how social capital fosters innovation within small firms. Like physical and human capital, social capital is also considered an explanatory factor in theories of innovation. Social networks become an essential element in the economic activity of the small businesses as they are more likely to rely on them to obtain information and learn about new techniques of productions due to their smaller resource base.

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  • Moina Rauf, 2009. "Innovations And Informal Institutions:An Institutionalist Approach To The Role Of Social Capital For Innovation," Journal of Academic Research in Economics, Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Accounting and Financial Management Constanta, vol. 1(1 (June)), pages 25-33.
    • Handle: RePEc:shc:jaresh:v:1:y:2009:i:1:p:25-33
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    1. Quevedo Cascante, Mónica & Acosta García, Nicolás & Fold, Niels, 2022. "The role of external forces in the adoption of aquaculture innovations: An ex-ante case study of fish farming in Colombia's southern Amazonian region," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 174(C).
    2. Maryam Khosravi & Mahmood Yahyazadehfar & Mohsen Alizadeh Sani, 2023. "Economic growth and human capital in Iran: A phenomenological study in a major Central Asian economy," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 40(2), pages 645-679, June.
    3. Lydia Kwoyiga & Catalin Stefan, 2019. "Institutional Feasibility of Managed Aquifer Recharge in Northeast Ghana," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-16, January.

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    Keywords

    Social capital; innovation; informal institutions; Pakistan;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • N25 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Asia including Middle East
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O38 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Government Policy
    • O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth

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