Literature review on entrepreneurial network: A comprehensive frame

Abstract

Entrepreneurial network plays an important role in entrepreneurship activities. In recent years, entrepreneurial network becomes hot spot in the area of Entrepreneurship. With the support of "social network theory", "social exchange theory" and "social cognitive theory", entrepreneurial network research has been developed to micro-and macro-levels gradually. The purposes of this paper is to analyses the entrepreneurial network in the last ten years, and proposes the research framework of entrepreneurial network, deeply analyses the default of the existing research, then propose prospects about entrepreneurial network in future. And we hope that the Literature Review On Entrepreneurial Network will give some inspiration to researchers. © 2010 IEEE.