Network characteristics and corporate entrepreneurshipof cluster enterprises: anempirical study based on entrepreneurial competence

Abstract

Abstract: The corporate entrepreneurship of cluster enterprises has been an important path of the transformation and upgrading of industrial clusters. Influenced by the network characteristics, the entrepreneurship decision of cluster enterprises are very different. With questionnaires for132 effectivesample enterprises in the selected typical industrial clusters in Zhejiang Province, SEM method is used to verify the theoretical hypotheses of the relationship among network characteristics, entrepreneurial competence and corporate entrepreneurship. The empirical results indicate that there is a positive relationship between entrepreneurial competence and corporate entrepreneurship; the relation content, network scale and intermediary centrality of enterprises have positive influence ontheir entrepreneurship competence; the relation strength and network intensity have a positiveinfluence on entrepreneurial cognitive capability and resource integration capability, but a negative influence on opportunity access capability.

Key words: cluster enterprises, network characteristics, corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial competence

CLC Number:

F270

Ye Zheng, Zheng Jianzhuang. Network characteristics and corporate entrepreneurshipof cluster enterprises: anempirical study based on entrepreneurial competence[J]. Science Research Management, 2014, 35(1): 58-65.

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