Entrepreneurial+Resources

A //social networks// approach to entrepreneurship claims that entrepreneurship is: (1) embedded in networks of continuing social relations; (2) facilitated or constrained by linkages between aspiring entrepreneurs, resources, and opportunities; and (3) influenced by the interaction of chance, necessity, and purpose in all social action (i.e., the population perspective on organizational formation and persistence). Increasing connectedness between individuals through information brokers facilitates the spread of information and resources within social networks; increasing an individual's social network diversity will broaden the scope of opportunities open to him or her; and increasing ties to those contacts with the most social resources - that is, contacts as high in the social hierarchy as possible - will provide the most access to social resources and more entrepreneurial opportunities.