We study the role of social capital in language acquisition during study abroad. Using data collected from 204 participants in Japanese study abroad programs, we show that students who leverage social capital through bridging relationships feel they achieve higher levels of language improvement. Furthermore, an analysis of the topics participants discuss with locals suggests that there are sign...

Based on the research of relationship between corporate social capital and technology innovation, this paper raised conceptual models and theoretical assumptions of corporate social capital influencing technological innovation performance, and analyzed in depth how the corporate social capital affected corporate technology innovation performance by using resource acquisition, according to quest...

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There are two competing theoretical perspectives on whether bank capital improves or adversely affects banks’ monitoring incentives. We show that bank capital is positively associated with loan quality, an outcome of bank’s monitoring effort, and two salary-based ex-ante measures of monitoring effort that capture quality and quantity of labor input into monitoring. The evidence is robust to a b...