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| Impacts of Entrepreneurial Network Structure on Absorptive Capacity in Effective Trust Context |
| Sun Wei1,Hou Xilin2 |
| (1.School of Economics and Management,Tongji University,Shanghai 200092,China; 2.School of Business Administration,University of Science and Technology Liaoning,Anshan 114051,China) |
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Abstract An effective way to overcome the liability of newness and obtain various resources for the new ventures is to establish and develop entrepreneurial network.Based on the theories of social network and absorptive capacity,and combined the background of social relations in China,the theoretical model of entrepreneurial network structure,effective trust and absorptive capacity is constructed.It is found that network size,network intensity and network diversity all have a significantpositive impact on absorptive capacity,effective trust has a significant positive impact on absorptive capacity,and effective trust positively moderates the relationship between network intensity and absorptive capacity,and positively moderates the relationship between network diversity and absorptive capacity.The results of this study can provide some implications for entrepreneurs to adjust their entrepreneurial activities from the aspects of network structure and relationship trust so as to improve the ventures′ absorptive capacity.
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Received: 09 August 2019
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