Empirical study on relationships between safety performance of construction enterprises, social capital and dynamic capability

doi:10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2017.01.001

Abstract

Abstract: In order to improve safety performance of construction enterprises, based on the theory of social capital and the theory of safety management, the influence mechanism of social capital on the safety performance was deeply analyzed. Taking dynamic capability as a mediating variable, a theoretical model was built for the relationships between social capital, dynamic capability and safety performance of construction enterprises. Through the data collected from 300 valid questionnaires of 98 projects, the model was verified by using factor analysis and structural equation model theory. The results show that the social capital of a construction enterprise has a significant positive effect on its dynamic capability and its safety performance, and that the dynamic capability plays a complete mediating role between the safety performance and both the structure dimension and the relationship dimension of the social capital, and it plays a partial mediating role between the safety performance and the cognitive dimension of the cocial capital. Therefore, paying attention to the cultivation of social capital of construction enterprises and strengthening the development of the dynamic capability are effective ways to improve the safety performance of enterprises.

Key words: social capital, dynamic capability, safety performance, factor analysis, structural equation model(SEM)

CLC Number:

X921

LI Shuquan, LIU Shijie. Empirical study on relationships between safety performance of construction enterprises, social capital and dynamic capability[J]. China Safety Science Journal, 2017, 27(1): 1-6.

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