The Relationship of Entrepreneurial Learning, Entrepreneurial Competence and Entrepreneurial Performance ——Based on the Perspective of Entrepreneurs’ Social Network
XIE Ya-ping1, HUANG Mei-jiao2
1.School of Management, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350108, China; 2.Department of Business Management, Fujian Commercial College, Fuzhou 350001, China
Abstract:
This paper builds a conceptual model of the relationship of entrepreneurial learning among the social network, entrepreneurial competence and entrepreneurial performance, uses structural equation analysis method to conduct an empirical test on the theoretical hypothesis, based on a sample of 409 entrepreneurs in small and micro enterprises. The results show that: entrepreneurs’ social network is an important platform for entrepreneurial learning, entrepreneurial learning based on social network can be divided into three main ways-imitation, communication and guiding, these learning ways are significant positive affect entrepreneurial competence and entrepreneurial performance; the relationship between entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurial performance is not just a simple linear relationship, entrepreneurial competence plays a mediating role in the relationship; entrepreneurs can choose the match entrepreneurial learning way to enhance their entrepreneurial competence, thereby promote the entrepreneurial performance.
XIE Ya-ping, HUANG Mei-jiao.The Relationship of Entrepreneurial Learning, Entrepreneurial Competence and Entrepreneurial Performance ——Based on the Perspective of Entrepreneurs’ Social Network[J] Economic Survey, 2016,V33(1): 101-106