会议专题

STUDY ON THE PROCESS OF SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION BASED ON NETWORK TIES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK

Network ties are most important social capital (Casson, 2007) 1, in the entrepreneurship network, network ties are used by entrepreneurs to search for relevant information resource. This paper reviews and analyzes the literature on entrepreneurship and network ties; presents search models, which exploit the distinction between strong and/or weak ties in entrepreneurship network. Simulation results for the various search models show the network ties will affect searching efficiency and the most efficacious entrepreneurship networks are small-world, so entrepreneurs should use different combination of network ties to get necessary information in different situation and phase.

Entrepreneurship network Information resource Strong ties Weak ties

Zhou Dongmei Aris M. Ouksel Lu Ruoyu

School of Economics and Management Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Tech. of China Chengdu, Sichuan, China Department of Information and Decision Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago China Chicago, IL School of Economics and Management Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Tech.of China Chengdu, Sichuan, China

国际会议

Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2010(2010创新与创业国际学术会议)

北京

英文

151-157

2010-07-09(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)