The Relationship among Governance Mechanisms of Entrepreneurial Network, Network Structure and New Venture Performance

Abstract

Abstract:

Governance plays a fundamental role in operation of network organizations, which is connected with their operational quality and synergy effect. Existing researches have proved that there is direct relationship between network structure and new venture performance. But few of them have paid attention to the influence of governance. In fact, it is network management not the structure that matters to new venture performance. This paper tests the main effect of governance mechanism and new venture performance, and the moderating effect of tie strength and network scale. It shows that learning has positive effect on new venture performance and tie strength can moderate this relationship. Although contract and trust do not have positive effect on new venture performance statistically, their interaction may have the influence. That means the mixing governance mechanism that contains contract and trust can explain the difference of new venture performance, not their individual effect.

Key words: entrepreneurial network, governance mechanism, network structure, new venture performance

Han Wei, Yang Wanyu. The Relationship among Governance Mechanisms of Entrepreneurial Network, Network Structure and New Venture Performance[J]. , 2015, 27(12): 65-79.

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