企业家及企业家网络构建的理论分析——基于社会网络的分析观点

A Theoretical Analysis of Entrepreneurs and Their Network Construction--Based on An Analytic Viewpoint of Social Network

企业的创新活动要由企业家来组织和推动。企业家在推动创新的过程中,必然受其根植的个人网络和社会网络的影响。文章试图通过社会学中社会网络的分析观点指出,企业家网络及其构成很大程度上决定了企业家获取信息与资源的能力。此外,相对于企业家的个人网络而言,企业家的社会网络对企业家的创新行为将产生更为重要的影响,因为通过社会网络企业家能够获取和动员异质性程度更高的信息与资源。

It is entrepreneurs who organize and promote innovation activities in an enterprise.Their behavior in the innovation course will be affected by their individual network and social net-work around them.This article indicates that entrepreneurs'network as well as its structure may largely determine their ability of obtaining information and resources.Furthermore,in contrast with their individual network,entrepreneurs'social network may exert more influence over their innova-tion activities because social network will bring more dissimilar information and resource to en-trepreneurs than individual network.