Entrepreneurial Resource Acquisition through Indirect Ties: Compensatory Effects of Prior Knowledge
研究间接关系（通过介绍人连接创业者与资源所有者）如何提升创业资源获取的可能性，发现资源所有者的先前知识能弥补弱关系中的信息不对称，但介绍人的知识无此作用。
This study investigates when indirect ties, in which a referrer appears between an entrepreneur and a resource owner, can enhance the likelihood of resource acquisitions for starting a new venture. The authors argue that when either resource owners or referrers possess a greater level of prior knowledge about a venture’s technology or product, information asymmetry problems arising from weak component ties decline, enabling resource owners to evaluate the venture better. On the basis of survey data from 378 high-tech entrepreneurs, the analysis shows that resource owners’ prior knowledge, but not referrers’, compensates for limited information in weak component ties better than in strong component ties.