The Development of Scaling Table about Inner Social Capital in Technology Innovation Team and the Test of Its Reliability and Validity

Abstract

This paper is based on the definition of social capital and technology innovation team. The related theory of social capital, especially the study about inner social capital in team is reviewed. A scaling table about inner social capital in technology innovation team including 25 items is developed initially. 95 valid questionnaires are collected about technology innovation teams in agriculture industry of Sichuan province. The method of item analysis, the test of reliability and validity are adopted. Finally, three constructs including 16 items are kept to form the scaling table.

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“…The evidence of this research acknowledged that a collective action of growers drives development of social capital in the society. Ju and Fu (2012) reviewed theories of social capital and explained that there was no general definition about social capital but three theories are noted as follows; (a) social capital contains three components; resource embedded in social structure, the persons' capability to use the resource and through the objective ability to use or mobilise these resources (b) social capital as the sum of the potential and real resource embedded in the network owned by individual or organisation, (c) social capital as contact between the main body and society, the capability to access resource through the contact. Munasib and Jordan (2011) viewed social capital as community involvement and farmers used it as sustainable agricultural practices.…”

“…Bihar is one of poorest states of India where a majority the lower castes live. Ju and Fu (2012) analysed many social capita theories and highlighted that social capital is the strength of the team. The best example for the use of social capital is the case of Jasmine growers in Karnataka state, India.…”

“…Social capital refers to the trust and shared norms of behavior that arise within informal social networks and influences the resources that an individual can mobilise through social networking (Janssens, 2010;Ju and Fu, 2012). Janssens (2010) highlighted that women empowerment and social capital enhanced the development of roads, schools and bridges in the state of Bihar in India.…”

“…As Ju and Fu (2012) noted in their research, trust is one of the important measures of social capital indices and they developed a questionnaire to evaluate social capital in the research team. They also explained structural social capital such as vertical and horizontal trust in group, respectively measured by colleagues trust and leaders' trusts.…”