TY  - CHAP
AB  - Although the literature addressing entrepreneurial networking is reaching a fairly high degree of sophistication and scope, there are certain critical areas where important questions remain unanswered. Specifically, research into the processes of entrepreneurial networking has been hindered by a paucity of longitudinal studies. Thus, the consideration of change over time is de facto limited. Moreover, accounts of how individuals actually use networks to learn about entrepreneurship, its practices and processes remain sparse. Yet, we know that learning is a social process, so the research gap lies in relating networks, as social contexts to the entrepreneurial learning process. Furthermore, since social relations are fundamental to everyone's life, and emerge, develop and change throughout their life course, people are embedded in social situations that put them in touch with others (Kim & Aldrich, 2005). Consequently, learning is often “located in the relations among actors” (Uzzi & Lancaster, 2003, p. 398). As well as direct learning through network contacts, network transitivity also facilitates learning by one embedded network member, through the knowledge held by a second member, about a third, as shown in Uzzi and Gillespie's (2002) study. Accordingly, in many ways how entrepreneurs go about using their networks and with whom they network may be critical for entrepreneurship and thus warrants investigation. It is to this end that we now consider the shape, content and process of entrepreneurial networking.
VL  - 9
SN  - 978-1-84950-428-7, 978-0-76231-329-7/1074-7540
DO  - 10.1016/S1074-7540(06)09005-2
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S1074-7540(06)09005-2
AU  - Drakopoulou Dodd Sarah
AU  - Jack Sarah
AU  - Anderson Alistair
ED  - Johan Wiklund
ED  - Dimo Dimov
ED  - Jerome A. Katz
ED  - Dean A. Shepherd
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - The Mechanisms and Processes of Entrepreneurial Networks: Continuity and Change
T2  - Entrepreneurship: Frameworks And Empirical Investigations From Forthcoming Leaders Of European Research
T3  - Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 107
EP  - 145
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -