Business owners’ network size and business growth in China: The role of comprehensive social competency

Zhao, Xiangyang; Fresé, Michael; Giardini, Angelo

doi:10.1080/08985620903171376

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“…Eudaimonic Well-Being used the item like "I believe the management of the enterprise is the right life path for me", etc. Task-oriented personal initiative mainly referred to the scale developed by Hahn et al(2012), and Relationship-oriented personal initiative were borrowed from Zhao, Frese & Giardini(2010 Business & Management -RJBM (2015), Vol.2(3) Song, Lu, Li 303 ROE five indicators. All questions were self-evaluated by entrepreneurs in a 7 Likert scale and reliability tests indicated all the scales were reliable test and confirmatory factor analysis.…”

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Entrepreneurs happiness, personal initiatives and firm performance: evidence from China

Song¹,

Lu²,

Li³

2015

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This article constructed a theoretical model including entrepreneurs' happiness, personal initiative and firm performance, and tested the hypotheses using questionnaire survey and SEM analysis. The path analysis of 660 samples indicates that entrepreneurs' Eudaimonic Well-Being helps to enhance firm performance, but the Hedonic Well-Being has no significant direct effect on firm performance. Eudaimonic Well-Being can promote entrepreneurs to exhibit more task-oriented and relationship-oriented personal initiatives, but Hedonic Well-Being has no significant influence on both dimensions of personal initiatives. Only relationship-oriented personal initiative has a positive and significant effect on firm performance, while task-oriented personal initiative negatively but insignificantly influences firm performance. This study also provides some suggestions for entrepreneurs and government officers to improve the happiness and personal initiatives of Chinese entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs happiness, personal initiatives and firm performance: evidence from China

Song¹,

Lu²,

Li³

2015

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“…Social skills are honed either in verbal and nonverbal means, occurring through face-to-face physical encounters or can be alluded as highly specific learned behavior. Possessing high social skills enables one to create a good impression to others which puts them in a position to be persuasive, thereby helping in enlarging one's social network (Zhao et al, 2010).…”

Section: Political Skill and Social Networkmentioning

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“…Three social skills are critical in creating an effective social network which includes social perception, social adaptability, and express expressiveness (Zhao et al, 2010). The ability to accurately perceive traits, intentions, and motives of others is referred to as social knowledge.…”

Section: Political Skill and Social Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social network development requires social strategies that are primarily individual behavioral plans for social interactions to achieve certain personal and organizational goals. Proactive and elaborative social strategies are employed as behavioral plans to social interactions where they are applied in manipulating social opportunities (Zhao et al, 2010).…”

Section: Political Skill and Social Networkmentioning

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Entrepreneurial Education: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Political Skill on Social Network, Tacit Knowledge, and Innovation Capability

Huang

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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The purpose of this study is to examine the role of political skills in entrepreneurship education and the impact of social network, tacit knowledge, and innovation constructs. This study sought to investigate the conceptual relationship between political skills and tacit knowledge, social network and tacit knowledge, as well as innovation and tacit knowledge. The existence of the three construct and their effect on entrepreneur skill has been reviewed and discussed. This has been corroborated across studies that sought to establish the role of social networks, tacit knowledge, and innovation in influencing entrepreneurship. The performance of enterprise has closely being linked on the ability of individuals to take advantage of the social network and the individual as well as collective tacit knowledge to understand the business environment and come up with practical skills to counter the potential entrepreneurship risks. This study also addresses the impact of tacit knowledge on innovation. Tacit knowledge has both negative and positive effects on innovation, emanating from the transferability of innovations across individuals and firms.

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“…Aarstad (2012) proposed that an extensive social network and the presence of structural holes in the network affected entrepreneurial performance positively. The implication is that the numerous ties found in an extensive and rich network provide an accumulation of tangible and intangible resources that are linked directly to entrepreneurial outcomes such as growth and profitability (Baum et al, 2000;Cowan & Jonard, 2007;Zhao, Frese & Giardini, 2010;Zaheer & Bell, 2005).…”

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Down the Rabbit Hole: How Structural Holes in Entrepreneurs' Social Networks Impact Early Venture Growth

Adams

Makramalla

Miron

2014

Technology Innovation Management Review

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Business owners’ network size and business growth in China: The role of comprehensive social competency

Cited by 78 publications

References 60 publications

Entrepreneurs happiness, personal initiatives and firm performance: evidence from China

Entrepreneurs happiness, personal initiatives and firm performance: evidence from China

Entrepreneurial Education: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Political Skill on Social Network, Tacit Knowledge, and Innovation Capability

Down the Rabbit Hole: How Structural Holes in Entrepreneurs' Social Networks Impact Early Venture Growth

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