Networks in Entrepreneurship: The Case of High-technology Firms

By Tom Elfring, W. Hulsink. 2001

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Subfields: Accounting, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Networks, Technology, and Entrepreneurship: A Field Quasi-experiment among Women in Rural India (2017, neutral): “…new information (Seghers, Manigart, & Vanacker, 2012) and can be an important avenue for recognizing new ideas and identifying lucrative opportunities (Elfring & Hulsink, 2003; Stuart & Sorensen, 2005), leading to better jobs, higher performance ratings, and better salaries (Kilduff & Tsai, 2003).”
The role of intellectual resources, product innovation capability, reputational resources and marketing capability combinations in firm growth (2014, background): “While some scholars see them as antecedents to resources (e.g. Elfring and Hulsink, 2003), others see them as antecedents to performance (e.g. Wu et al., 2008).”
Resourcing new businesses: social networks, bootstrapping and firm performance (2010, background): “There is an extensive literature which describes the process by which entrepreneurs gradually access additional resources by extending their strong ties into weaker network linkages (Larson and Starr 1993 ; Elfring and Hulsink 2003 ; Smith and Lohrke 2008 ).”
Social support timing and persistence in nascent entrepreneurship: exploring when instrumental and emotional support is most effective (2017, background): “The social nature of entrepreneurship has been approached in various ways, generally relying on the assumption that entrepreneurs access various resources or support from their social environment, which they apply in their startup effort (Elfring and Hulsink 2003; Hanlon and Saunders 2007; Bastié et”
Creating the Future Together: Toward a Framework for Research Synthesis in Entrepreneurship (2014, background): “Moreover, such ties can provide a new entrepreneur with the legitimacy of established parties and/or reference 382 ENTREPRENEURSHIP THEORY and PRACTICE customers (Elfring & Hulsink, 2003; Jack & Anderson, 2002).”
Planned Luck: How Incubators Can Facilitate Serendipity for Nascent Entrepreneurs Through Fostering Network Embeddedness (2020, background): ““Community” then provides the space, mechanism, and context for entrepreneurs to become embedded (Elfring & Hulsink, 2003; McKeever et al., 2014), and social capital is generated and maintained through the practices of embedding.”
Brokerage in SME networks (2010, background): “SMEs that want to engage in novel organizational forms have to discover opportunities, secure resources and organize legitimacy in order to survive and perform (Baum et al., 2000; Elfring and Hulsink, 2003).”
The Schumpeterian entrepreneur: a review of the empirical evidence on the antecedents, behaviour and consequences of innovative entrepreneurship (2017, neutral): “…to opportunities and the entrepreneur’s individual characteristics, the environmental context and the available or accessible resources from stakeholders, alliances, and networks also influence the gestation of innovative entrepreneurship (Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven 1996; Elfring and Hulsink 2003).”
Strategic networks and entrepreneurial ventures (2007, background): “And in a detailed case study that could disentangle opportunity recognition from resource mobilization, Elfring and Hulsink (2003) found evidence that weak ties facilitated opportunity identifi cation.”
Recent developments in the economics of entrepreneurship (2008, background): “In spite of extensive literature linking social networks to entrepreneurship (Dubini and Aldrich, 1991; Elfring and Hulsink, 2003; Minniti, 2004, 2005), relatively little research has explored the existence and structure of formal business networks, and their implications for entrepreneurial…”
How social and human capital influence opportunity recognition and resource mobilization in India's handloom industry (2010, background): “Recent studies, however, indicate that neither sparse nor closed networks by themselves offer the optimum solution (Rowley et al., 2000; Elfring and Hulsink, 2003).”
The Nature of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: Understanding the Process Using the 4I Organizational Learning Framework (2005, background): “It is widely known that entrepreneurial networks perform a critical role of facilitating the creation of new ventures (Elfring & Hulsink, 2003; Flynn & Forman, 2001; Friar & Meyer, 2003).”
Does governmental venture capital spur invention and innovation? Evidence from young European biotech companies (2015, background): “Networks are particularly important for high-tech companies as an integral part of the detection of opportunities, the securing of resources, as well as the legitimization of the company (Elfring and Hulsink, 2003).”