Studies On The Evolution Of Entrepreneurial Network Based On SNA

Entrepreneurial enterprises are the main part of entrepreneurial behaviour, experiencingthe process of starting, growing and stablizing. It isn’t in an isolated state in society, buttremendously influenced by individuals or organizations inside and outside of theestablishment. Taking enterprises and individuals or organizations involving in the businessactivity as nodes and connecting their relationship to form the entrepreneurial network of thebusiness. With the development of the company, the entrepreneurial network is also changing.According to enterprise life cycle theory, the growth of entrepreneurial network is defined asphases of starting, growing and stablizing. There exists respective features in each phase. Atthe same time, the evolution of different phases shares common characters. The centricity,density and cohesion of network as indices to measure the network evolution indicatedifferent network features. The change of each feature index has a direct impact on theevolution of entrepreneurial network.The paper analyzes the reason for changes in the process of evolution in search ofdeveloping principles. Proposing hypotheses toward the network evolution in the aspect ofcentricity, density and cohesion of network during starting, growing and stablizing processand doing empirical research on the entrepreneurial network evolution of**Company, thepaper aims to build an entrepreneurial network of**Company and divide it into startingnetwork, growing network, and stablizing network. Utilizing social network theory and itsanalysis tool Ucinet&Netdraw to analyze the formed entrepreneurial network, the paperintends to learn about the network evolution process as the enterprises’ progress. It alsocenters on changes of the basic quality and network characteristics in the course of evolution.Besides, the hypothesis that has been put forward will be verified. In the network evolution, the centricity is on the increase, while the density tends to decrease. The cohesion shows thetrend of increase first and then decrease. Thus, there are rules to follow about the evolution ofentrepreneurial network, which can be refered to in the construction and optimization ofentrepreneurial network.