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Abstract Integration supplier into technological innovation posed the advantage of low risk and preferable efficient. However, normally supplier didn't make intensive efforts on innovation facing the need of manufactures, which led to the unsatisfactory effective result of supplier involvement in technological innovation. The present study intends to evaluate the effectiveness of supplier involvement into technological innovation by supplier innovativeness.Base on the social capital theory, the study explored the regular pattern of motivating supplier innovativeness by achieving supplier granted preferred customer status through the social capital between manufacturer and supplier. By empirical researching 186 valid samples which come from Chinese manufacturing industry we found that,manufacture achieves preferred customer statusgranted by supplier positive effects supplier innovativeness. Although social capital between manufacturer and supplier contributes to preferred customer statusachieved by manufacture, the mechanisms are significant difference among structural social capital, relational social capital and cognitive social capital for the reason of the internal difference among three dimensions of social capital.
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