In the world of business, who you know is usually more important than what you know. While
most research highlights the personal characteristics and expertise important to business …

The formation of new businesses can be conceptualized as a function of opportunity
structures and motivated entrepreneurs with access to resources. On the demand side …

Abstract Since Hoang and Antoncic (2003), network based research in entrepreneurship
continues to develop and grow. To chart these developments, we discuss core relational …

From a practitioner's viewpoint, networking is a useful tool for entrepreneurs who wish to
enlarge their span of action and save time. Admonitions to" network," however, may not be …

Although research has begun to acknowledge the strategies by which entrepreneurs form
and maintain network ties, most efforts to date present an incomplete picture of …

Exploring entrepreneurship through the influential network perspective, which investigates
how social connections between entrepreneurs and their environment facilitate or constrain …

Much research suggests that social networks shape the emergence and development of
nascent ventures. Scholars have argued that founders' and firms' networks influence …

Entrepreneurship scholars argue that opportunities are at the heart of entrepreneurial
activity. Yet, there is still a heated debate on the nature of opportunities. The discovery view …

Taking a grounded approach, we devised a framework to explain how entrepreneurs attract
critical resources to venture creation and development. The study was based on qualitative …

Despite the wide application of the network approach in Entrepreneurship and International
Entrepreneurship, previous research lacks understanding of entrepreneurial networking as …