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Network Span And Entrepreneurial Opportunity: Regulation Of Trust And Contact Strength

Posted on:2013-08-07Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2269330425972184Subject:Business Administration
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Entrepreneurship plays a pivotal role in promoting the economy, innovation, and the process of reform and opening up, however, the failure rate of start-ups in China is still high, conditions of which many entrepreneurial activities terminated in its infancy are especially serious. The survey shows that the key factor hindering entrepreneurs to acquire entrepreneurial success is the lack of relationship resources. Hence, based on the review of previous studies, this paper proposed a theoretical model under the text of China, I will firstly explore the positive effect of entrepreneurs’network range on entrepreneurial opportunity discovery and exploitation, then after a careful research of relevant studies, this paper found that the influence of broad network may need the cooperation of relational social capital, thus, this paper propose that trust will moderate the relationship between network range and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery, and tie strength will moderate the relationship between network range and entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation. In this paper, sample data was collected through the questionnaire survey, using SPSS13.0software for statistical analysis and multiple hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the hypotheses deriving from the conceptual model.The study shows that, there’s a positive relationship between network range and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery, and in the interaction research of trust and network range on entrepreneurial opportunity discovery, this paper confirmed that trust plays a positive significant role on the relationship between network range and entrepreneurial opportunity discovery, that is when trust is high, the impact of network range on entrepreneurial opportunity discovery will be more significant. This paper didn’t empirically confirmed that there’s a direct relationship between network range and entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation, but in the interaction research of tie strength and network range on entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation, this paper found that tie strength plays a positive significant role on the relationship between network range and entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation, that is, the impact of network range on entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation will be changed to significant in the case of high tie strength.Finally, according to the results of empirical examinations, the paper gives a deep interpretation about the main conclusions of this study, and on this basis, we provide the theoretical meaning and practical suggestions, and the direction of future research.
Keywords/Search Tags:network range, trust, tie strength, entrepreneurialopportunity discovery, entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation
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