企业家社会团体纽带与新创企业成长——信息处理观权变视角的探究

Entrepreneurs' Association Tie and New Venture Growth——A Study from the Information Processing View Contingency Perspective

本研究试图从企业家社会网络细分的角度切入,选择企业家社会团体纽带来探究企业家社会网络与新创企业成长之间的关系。然后,从权变的角度切入,基于信息处理观剖析组织结构对企业家社会团体纽带与新创企业成长关系的权变影响。具体而言,本研究基于302个新创企业样本,验证企业家社会团体纽带与新创企业成长的关系,以及组织结构正规性与分权性对二者关系的调节作用。经过研究发现,企业家社会团体纽带会通过新创企业获取机会来促进新创企业成长,组织结构的正规性能够提升新创企业的信息处理能力,进而正向调节企业家社会团体纽带与新创企业成长的关系。理论上,虽然组织结构的分权性也能提升新创企业的信息处理能力,但是分权性所导致的利益冲突会起到极大的削弱作用,两种效应的结果最终使得组织结构的分权性负向调节企业家社会团体纽带与新创企业成长的关系。基于以上研究结论,本研究针对新创企业与社会团体分别给出了理论贡献与管理启示。

This study segments the entrepreneurs’ social network and selects the entrepreneurs’ association tie to analyze the relationship between the entrepreneurs’ association tie and the new venture growth. Then,this study explores the contingent effect of organization structure on the relationship between the entrepreneurs’ association tie and the new venture growth based on the information processing view. Specifically,302 samples are used in this study to test the relationship between the entrepreneurs’ association tie and the new venture growth,and the contingent effect of formalization and decentralization. The results show that the entrepreneurs’ association tie is positively related to the new venture growth because of opportunity acquisition. In addition,the results show that formalization will positively moderate the relationship between the entrepreneurs’ association tie and the new venture growth,for that formalization is beneficial to information processing capacities. However,decentralization will negatively moderate the relationship between the entrepreneurs’ association tie and the new venture growth although decentralization is beneficial to information processing capacities,for that decentralization will lead to interest conflict which will reduce the positive effect of decentralization on information processing capacities. Based on the above conclusions,this study also provides some theoretical contributions and managerial implications from the perspective both new venture and association.