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

Purpose This study aims to solve the realistic dilemma between the importance of
entrepreneurship and the high rate of entrepreneurial failure, and to point out the direction of …

In this paper, we use a social support perspective and hypothesize that the scope of start-up
activities is positively associated with two types of instrumental family support, financial and …

This introduction to the special issue considers past and current research on “Social Capital
and Entrepreneurship” to develop a schema and an associated research agenda. With the …

Social capital, which offers the broader theoretical construct to which networks and
networking relate, is now recognized as an important influence in entrepreneurship. Broadly …

Deploying a multidimensional framework focusing on individual, organizational and societal
factors, we investigate gendering practices through which women entrepreneurs become …

This paper examines the relationship among gender, social capital, and access to finance of
micro, small, and medium enterprises in the manufacturing sector in Viet Nam. Our dataset is …

A long-held assumption in entrepreneurship research is that normal (ie, Gaussian)
distributions characterize variables of interest for both theory and practice. We challenge this …

This paper investigates how the timing of social support, both emotional and instrumental
support, affects entrepreneurial persistence of nascent entrepreneurs. Drawing on social …

This article is about the network theory of advantage applied to entrepreneurship and an
area-probability sample of 700 Chinese entrepreneurs, using 2,193 American and …