A review on “The internal mechanisms of entrepreneurs social capital: a multi-network analysis"

  1. Carlos Hernández Carrión 1
  2. Carmen Camarero Izquierdo 1
  3. Jesús Gutiérrez Cillán 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Valladolid
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    Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01fvbaw18

Journal:
International Journal of Tourism and Hotel Business Management

ISSN: 2641-6948

Year of publication: 2021

Volume: 3

Issue: 1

Pages: 435-441

Type: Article

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Abstract

This contribution conducts a mini review of the paper: “The internal mechanisms of entrepreneurs’ social capital: A multi-network analysis”, written by Hernández-Carrión, Camarero-Izquierdo & Gutiérrez-Cillán (2020) and published in Business Research Quarterly. The article in question evidences the existence of two social capital mechanisms which link the features of the entrepreneur’s social networks (in terms of size, diversity, cohesion and relational quality) with the strategic resources the entrepreneur has obtained through them (social capital resource exploitation). Based on a separate individual analysis of the personal and professional networks of 958 Spanish entrepreneurs, two mechanisms are shown to exist: the resource mechanism (based on the size and diversity of networks) and the exchange mechanism (based on cohesion and relational quality). Depending on the type of network considered (personal or professional), one mechanism or another will prevail.

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