Values and Social Capital as Predictors of Attitudes towards Innovation

Nadezhda Lebedeva (), Ekaterina Osipova () and Liubov Cherkasova ()
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Liubov Cherkasova: National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). International Laboratory of Socio-Cultural Research:

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Abstract: This study examines the relationship of values and social capital with attitudes towards innovations. The respondents (N = 1238) were asked to fill in a questionnaire, which included the Schwartz value survey SVS-57, a selfassessment scale of innovative personality traits [Lebedeva, Tatarko, 2009], and a method of assessing social capital [Tatarko, 2011]. The results of the correlation analysis revealed a positive correlation between values of Openness to Change and a positive attitude to innovation. It was also found that the components of social capital (trust, tolerance, perceived social capital) positively correlated with attitudes to innovation. The empirical model obtained by means of a structural equation modeling generally confirmed the hypothesis of the study and demonstrated the positive impact of the values of Openness to Change and social capital on attitudes towards innovations in Russia

Keywords: creativity; innovation; attitude to innovation; social capital; perceived social capital; individual values (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Sociology / SOC, June 2013, pages 1-28

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