Roles of Social Capital in Venture Creation: Key Dimensions and Research Implications*

By Jianwen Liao, Harold P. Welsch. 2005

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation, Sociology and Political Science

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Information processing and strategic decision-making in small and medium-sized enterprises: The role of human and social capital in attaining decision effectiveness (2013, background): “Liao and Welsch (2005) and Lee and Jones (2008) argued and demonstrated that structural social capital is a condition that must be fulfilled in order to create cognitive social capital.”
Why Networks Enhance the Progress of New Venture Creation: The Influence of Social Capital and Cognition (2009, background): “PTE & 1042-2587 © 2009 Baylor University 527March, 2009 Liao & Welsch, 2005; Ostgaard & Birley, 1996).”
Entrepreneurial opportunity recognition: an empirical study of R&D personnel (2013, background): “Social network theory has been recently extended to the entrepreneurship field (Liao and Welsch, 2005; Williams and Lee, 2009).”
Exploring the Role of Trust in Entrepreneurial Activity (2006, background): “So far, few entrepreneurship studies have researched the role of trust in creating and developing a new venture (Liao & Welsch, 2005; Zahra et al., 2006).”
Network Characteristics and Firm Performance: An Examination of the Relationships in the Context of a Cluster** (2013, unknown): “Network relationships also engender respect, trust, truthfulness, and friendliness, and help build social capital, an important resource that entrepreneurs capitalize on (Ahlstrom and Bruton 2006; De Carolis, Litzky, and Eddleston 2009; De Carolis and Saparito 2006; Hanlon and Saunders 2007; Hite 20”
A study of a university-led entrepreneurship education programme for small business owner/managers (2012, background): “Moreover, the argument made in the literature is that the generation of social capital is good for owner/managers whose world otherwise can be a lonely place (Fafchamps and Minten 1999 ; Liao and Welsch 2005 ).”
Risk management capability building in SMEs: A social capital perspective (2013, background): “Communication helps employees maintain close bonds and share common goals while clarifying complex tasks and meanings (Lee and Jones, 2008), and improves access to external sources of learning by increasing actor willingness to engage in two-way interaction (Liao and Welsch, 2005).”
Multiculturalism and Entrepreneurial Intentions: Understanding the Mediating Role of Cognitions (2018, background): “…start new ventures (O’Donnell, Gilmore, Cummins, & Carson, 2001), exposure to ideas that when implemented can find market outside of one’s in-group community (De Carolis & Saparito, 2006), intellectual capital (Nahapiet & Ghoshal, 1998), and legitimacy from out-group members (Liao & Welsch, 2005).”
Social and Symbolic Capital and Responsible Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Investigation of SME Narratives (2006, background): “One perspective of social capital theory is that network ties provide access to resources and information (Liao and Welsch, 2005).”
Social capital and tourism entrepreneurship (2011, background): “Extant literature on entry into entrepreneurship can be generally categorized into two streams of enquiry (Liao & Welsch, 2005).”
Scientists’ transition to academic entrepreneurship: Economic and psychological determinants (2012, background): “Social capital resources stemming from these ties have been shown to particularly affect the early stages of the entrepreneurial process, i.e., the initial decision to engage in entrepreneurship (Liao & Welsch, 2005; Samuelsson & Davidsson, 2009).”
What matters, matters differently: a conjoint analysis of the decision policies of angel and venture capital investors (2014, background): “Strategic readiness is a positive signal of critical human factors such as the entrepreneur’s reputation (Baron and Markman 2000, 2003; Liao and Welsch 2005).”
How does microfinance enhance entrepreneurial outcomes in emerging economies? The mediating mechanisms of psychological and social capital (2014, background): “These dimensions of social capital have been widely investigated in prior studies, and have been shown to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and resources between individuals (Li et al., 2007; Liao and Welsch, 2005).”