Title : 
Mediating effect of knowledge-sharing on the relationship between social capital and team performance
         
        
            Author : 
Wang, Yanfei ; Chen, Jingjing ; Liang, Pingfeng
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
South China Univ. of Technol., Guangzhou, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Based on samples from the Pearl River Delta of China, this paper investigates the relationship social capital, knowledge-sharing and team performance. The result shows that: social capital has positive impact on team performance; social capital has positive impact on knowledge-sharing; knowledge-sharing acts a partly mediator between social capital and team performance. At the end of this paper, we discuss he practical significance of this study, in order to put some suggestions for improving the team performance by social capital management and knowledge-sharing management.
         
        
            Keywords : 
knowledge management; team working; knowledge-sharing management; social capital management; team performance; Atmosphere; Book reviews; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge transfer; Psychology; Reliability; Technological innovation;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Web Society (SWS), 2010 IEEE 2nd Symposium on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Beijing
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-6356-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/SWS.2010.5607392