Roles of Social Capital in Venture Creation: Key Dimensions and Research Implications*
基于Nahapiet和Ghoshal的社会资本三维度框架，利用Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics数据，比较了新生创业者与普通公众、技术型与非技术型新生创业者在社会资本上的差异，发现区分二者的不是社会资本数量而是维度间的关联模式。
This study was built upon Nahapiet and Ghoshal's three dimensions of social capital—structural, relational, and cognitive. It addresses three research questions: (1) Are there significant differences in social capital between nascent entrepreneurs and the general public (control group)? (2) Are there significant differences in social capital between technology and nontechnology nascent entrepreneurs? (3) How do the three dimensions of social capital interact among themselves across different sample groups? These questions were examined by using the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics data set. Results suggest that there are no significant differences in various dimensions of social capital between nascent entrepreneurs and the general public. What differentiates the two groups is not the amount of social capital but the patterns of association among its different dimensions. Additionally, the authors found that technology-based nascent entrepreneurs tend to have a higher degree of relational capital than their nontechnology counterparts. Implications and future research directions are discussed.