The relationship among network embeddedness,entrepreneurial orientation, and new firm performance

Abstract

Abstract: In the field of entrepreneurship, a relationship between network and the growth of new firm has been a hot topic attracting much attention from both academic and practical circles. Drawing from the network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, firstly, a conceptual model involving network embeddedness, entrepreneurial orientation, and entrepreneurial performance is built. By using the questionnaire and structure equation modeling, it is found that the structural embeddedness, relational embeddedness, and cognitive embeddedness of network have the positive relationship with the entrepreneurial performance, but their roles are in a descendant manner; the entrepreneurial orientation is positively correlated with the entrepreneurial performance, and has a positively mediative effect among structural network embeddedness, relational network embeddedness, and entrepreneurial performance, however, the cognitive network embeddedness does not boost entrepreneurial performance.

Key words: network embeddedness, entrepreneurial orientation, new firm performance

CLC Number:

F270.1

Yi Chaohui. The relationship among network embeddedness,entrepreneurial orientation, and new firm performance[J]. Science Research Management, 2012, 33(11): 105-115.

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