The Empirical Study on Influencing Mechanism of Firm’s Entrepreneurial Behavior in Manufacturing Clusters

Zheng Ye () and Ning Cai
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Zheng Ye: Hangzhou Vocational and Technical College
Ning Cai: Zhejiang University

Chapter Chapter 174 in The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 1641-1648 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Based on questionnaires surveyed in manufacturing clusters in Zhejiang province, this paper studied the influencing mechanism that network characteristics of firms in cluster and their entrepreneurial behaviors through the mediating role of entrepreneurial capability. The results of empirical analysis indicate that: First, relation content and betweenness centrality are positively related to the three dimensions of entrepreneurial capability which include entrepreneurial cognitive capability, opportunity access capability, and resource integration capability. Second, tie strength and network intensity are positively related to entrepreneurial cognitive capability and resource integration capability, but negatively related to opportunity access capability. Network scale only has positive relation to resource integration capability. Results showed that it is one of the key approaches to improve entrepreneurial behaviors through cultivate the entrepreneurial capability based on the network characteristics of firms in clusters.

Keywords: Empirical study; Entrepreneurial behavior; Influencing mechanism; Manufacturing clusters (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38427-1_174

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