创业网络与新企业绩效:组织合法性的中介作用及其启示

基于整合制度理论与社会网络视角,从政治网络、投资者网络和顾客关系网络三个方面提出并检验组织合法性在创业网络与新企业绩效关系间的中介效应。基于209份新企业数据,通过多元回归方法对研究假设进行检验,结果显示:政治网络、投资者网络、顾客关系网络与组织合法性正相关;政治网络与新企业绩效关系不显著,投资者网络、顾客关系网络与新企业绩效正相关;组织合法性在顾客关系网络与新企业绩效关系间存在部分中介效应,在投资者网络与新企业绩效关系间存在完全中介效应。

Relationship between New Venture Network and New Venture Performance: Mediating Role of Organizational Legitimacy and Its Implications

Conquering legitimacy threshold is a key issue for new ventures to achieve growth.By integrating institutional theory and social network perspectives of political network,investor network and customer network,the research proposes and tests mediating role of organizational legitimacy between entrepreneurial network and new ventures performance.Using 209 new ventures' data,through regression analysis,this paper finds that political network,investors network,customer relationship network and legitimacy are positive correlated;political network and new venture performance are not correlated,investors network and customer relationship network and new venture performance are positively correlated;organization legitimacy between customer relationship network and new venture performance relationship exists a partial mediating effect,between investors network and the new venture performance relationship exists a completely mediating effect.The research contributes to existing theory by finding the legitimation process between entrepreneurial network and new venture performance,which has a certain practical significance for network construction and new ventures performance by improving organization legitimacy.