Why Networks Enhance the Progress of New Venture Creation: The Influence of Social Capital and Cognition

By D. D. De Carolis, Barrie E. Litzky, K. Eddleston. 2009

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

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The Effects of Business Failure Experience on Successive Entrepreneurial Engagements: An Evolutionary Phase Model (2018, background): “However, De Carolis, Litzky, and Eddleston (2009) draw attention to the fact that a reliance on strong network ties may not enhance the progress of all new ventures, thus bringing into focus a potential dark side of utilizing strong ties in new business creation.”
Entrepreneurship in global innovation ecosystems (2011, background): “The entrepreneurship literature has also overlooked examining innovation ecosystems and how they may foster new venture creation, survival, evolution, and growth (Birley 1985; De Carolis et al. 2009; Teece 2009).”
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): “De Carolis et al. (2009) point to the incorporation of cognitive factors to understand the impact of the social embedding in small firms in order to capture the processing of intra- and inter-individual cues that lead to action and performance.”
How network-based incubation helps start-up performance: a systematic review against the background of management theories (2017, background): “…that the positive attitude of others towards the entrepreneur can lead to improved access to information and knowledge, 690 C. P. Eveleens et al. power or influence over other actors, and a sense of belonging or solidarity (Aldrich and Zimmer 1986; de Carolis et al. 2009; Walker et al. 1997).”
Risk management capability building in SMEs: A social capital perspective (2013, background): “The importance of social capital is increasingly acknowledged in the SME literature (e.g. Anderson et al., 2007; De Carolis et al., 2009; Lee and Jones, 2008; Liao and Welsch, 2005; Neergaard et al., 2005; Ramos-Rodríguez et al., 2010; Totterman and Sten, 2005).”
What you know or who you know? The role of intellectual and social capital in opportunity recognition (2010, result): “These results are consistent with and complementary to those of other recent studies (Ozgen and Baron, 2007; De Carolis et al., 2009) that find a relation between the entrepreneur’s social capital and opportunity recognition and the chance of success in firm creation.”
Entrepreneurial talent and venture performance: A meta-analytic investigation of SMEs (2013, neutral): “…48 Cooper et al. (1997) 391 1799 U.S. Advanced 46 Crusoe (2000) 57 570 U.S. Advanced 46 Davidsson and Honig (2003) 380 380 Sweden Advanced 29 De Carolis et al. (2009) 269 269 U.S. Advanced 46 De Clerq and Sapienza (2006) 298 14,900 U.S. Advanced 46 Delmar and Shane (2003) 211 211 Sweden…”
The formation and interplay of social capital in crowdfunded social ventures (2014, background): “Early literature has already shown a strong link between SC and opportunities, for example De Carolis, Litzky, and Eddleston (2009) draw from social cognitive theory and advance a model suggesting that entrepreneurial behaviour is a result of the interplay of environments (i.e. social networks) and…”