Social Capital,Community Cohesion and the Way to Be the Dominant Design:An Empirical Study Based on Panel Threshold Model
Based on the structuralist perspective of social capital,this paper takes community cohesion as the threshold varia-ble and analyzes the heterogeneous influence mechanism of social capital,namely bonding social capital and bridging social capital on the formation of dominant design.The results based on the joint patent application data of the New Energy Vehicle Industry from 2000 to 2020 show that social capital exerts a complex nonlinear influence on the formation of a dominant de-sign,and the effect varies due to community cohesion.Specifically,during the different intervals of community cohesion di-vided by the double threshold value,bonding social capital is found to facilitate the formation of a dominant design,showing a monotonically stepwise growth feature,while bridging social capital is approximately shown as an inversed N-shaped effect of inhibition,promotion,and re-inhibition,indicating that there is an optimal community cohesion interval for bridging so-cial capital to promote the formation of dominant design.
the formation of dominant designbonding social capitalbridging social capitalcommunity cohesionthreshold effect