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Study On The Impact Of Incubation Network On Incubtee's Entrepreneurial Performance

Posted on:2011-07-27Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:B ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119330335489022Subject:Management Science and Engineering
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The development of incubator industry will rapidly and efficiently turn the scientific resources into productive forces, cultivating small and medium-sized scientific and technological enterprises, promoting technological innovation, driving regional and national industrial restructuring. It can meet not only the needs of our national innovation strategy, but also the practical needs of rapidly changing economic environment. The incubation network can access to the other resources with its regional linkage to upgrade and improve the incubating function, support the new science and technology revolution. According to the past researches on incubation mechanism, the research methods in which the incubators and the incubatees were taken as atom to atom, couldn't reflect the trends of incubator industry, and also couldn't achieve the incubation mechanism through competition and cooperation network. Therefore, on the basis of deep analysis in the relationship between the incubation network, we will research the incubatee's incubation mechanism based on enterprise's network in micro-level way.The construction and evolution of incubation network is essentially the overall status of the establishment and change of the cooperation relationship among the incubation network. Power is an important factor to affect the organizational relationship. As the organizational relationship extended from binary linage to connected network linkage, in order to get more external resources the incubatees need resources power as well as the network power. In order to support the incubatees to improve their right in incubator network, incubator should enhance its power status. To achieve this, incubator leads to construct the incubation network to intervene and adjust the power and resource dependency in the organization with the conversion mechanism between the network power and resources power, which can favor the incubatee in the incubation cooperation relationship and intervene in the evolution of incubation network. The growth evaluation of incubatee based on network is not only the result of incubation network evolution, but also an important feedback factor of incubation network evolution. On the basis of the research in the incubation network construction and evolution, this paper presents that on the instruction of the incubator the incubation network has formed one interference mechanism which is guided by incubatee's innovative value, based on that incubatee alienating part control power of organization and opening some internal information to establish a "common choice" partnership with incubator and get the continuous access support, providing services for incubatee under the control of incubator, which is an intervention mechanism that make incubatee transfer support into business performance.There are two sub-processes in the intervention process of incubator network. The first process is that incubation network can intervene in the formation of incubatee subnetwork. This paper is based on the embedding process of incubatee in incubation network, from the enterprise's point of view in micro-level way to set the incubatee's interventions impact dimension in incubation network in two ways:the network embeddedness and the network control mode. The network embeddedness is a multi-dimensional description variable, and all the dimensions combined to effect the resource environment of the incubatee; the network control mode is an overall state describing variable, reflecting the incubating institutional environment of the incubatee. The interventions impact of the incubation network on incubatee's network embeddedness is realized by network power-sharing mechanism, which forms a positive effect on relationship among the degree of intervention, the network power-sharing level, and the optimization degree of the network embedding; incubation network's interventions impact on the incubatee's network control mode is realized by sharing a common reputation mechanism, which forms the positive effect relationship among the intervention degree, reputation sharing degree, and optimization degree of the network control. Thus the intervention form the sub-network groups which incubtee hatched out.The other sub-process is to intervene in incubatee to gain the network supportive benefit and process of internal transformation. The intervention of incubation network can effect and adjust the internal process of transforming the network support benefit to entrepreneurial performance by two different function links, resource based and internal control mechanism. This paper designs a questionnaire with good reliability and validity by using Likert 5 scale, surverying the incubtee to obtain data. What's more, this paper conducts an empirical analysis on the relations among each variable by means of SEM, and the empirical findings validity support the model.Firstly, the empirical study of the relationship between incubtee's network embeddedness and entrepreneurial performance concluded that: among each various dimensions of the incubtee's network embeddedness, the intensity of internal network can promote the internal network center to upgrade, and can also promote the intensity of exterior network and extend the scope of exterior network; the intensity of internal network can promote entrepreneurial performance by enhancing the sensation ability and coordinated conformity ability of incubatee; the intensity of exterior network can promote entrepreneurial performance by enhancing the coordinated conformity ability and restructuring innovation ability; the scope of exterior network can promote entrepreneurial performance by enhancing the restructuring innovation ability.The other empirical research of the relationship between the incubtee's network control mode and entrepreneurial performance concluded that:the incubator network's intervention in the reputation sharing degree of incubatee has a positive impact on incubation cooperation in the use of social control; the means of social control in network environment is benefit for the internal behavior control mechanism of the enterprise; The incubatee's entrepreneurial orientation are in three dimensions, of which the risk-taking nature has no significant effect on entrepreneurial performance, but the innovative and dynamic nature have significant and positive impact on entrepreneurial performance. The three dimensions have a significant correlation. The use level of incubatee's internal behavior control mechanism will adjust the transformation process of business guide from three dimensions to entrepreneurial performance in a positive way.
Keywords/Search Tags:incubation network, intervention, network, embeddedness, network control mode, entrepreneurial performance
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