Universität zu Köln

Gloor, Peter A., Woerner, Stephanie, Schoder, Detlef, Fischbach, Kai ORCID: 0000-0001-5721-5369 and Colladon, Andrea Fronzetti ORCID: 0000-0002-5348-9722 (2018). Size does not matter - in the virtual world. Comparing online social networking behaviour with business success of entrepreneurs. Int. J. Entrep. Ventur., 10 (4). S. 435 - 456. GENEVA: INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD. ISSN 1742-5379

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Abstract

We explore what benefits network position in online business social networks like Linkedln might confer to an aspiring entrepreneur. We compare two network attributes, size and embeddedness, and two actor attributes, location and diversity, between virtual and real-world networks. The promise of social networks like Linkedln is that network friends enable easier access to critical resources such as legal and financial services, customers, and business partners. Our setting consists of one million public member profiles of the German business networking site XING (a German version of Linkedln) from which we extracted the network structure of 15,000 start-up entrepreneurs from 12 large German universities. We find no positive effect of virtual network size and embeddedness, and small positive effects of location and diversity.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Gloor, Peter A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Woerner, Stephanie UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Schoder, Detlef UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fischbach, Kai UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-5721-5369 UNSPECIFIED Colladon, Andrea Fronzetti UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-9722 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-201905
DOI:	10.1504/IJEV.2018.093919
Journal or Publication Title:	Int. J. Entrep. Ventur.
Volume:	10
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 435 - 456
Date:	2018
Publisher:	INDERSCIENCE ENTERPRISES LTD
Place of Publication:	GENEVA
ISSN:	1742-5379
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language TIES; PERFORMANCE; COMMUNICATION; STRENGTH; MEDIA; COLLABORATION; CONSEQUENCES; EMBEDDEDNESS; RESOURCES; IMPACT Multiple languages Management Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/20190