Founding team homogeneity and network positioning: The moderating role of environmental and organizational factors
研究发现创始团队同质性越强，企业越可能占据结构洞位置以获取外部资源，但社区本地主义强或移民成员比例高会削弱这一关系，而本地合作经验则增强它。
Organizations with homogeneous founding teams have strong motivation to reach out to diverse network resources by occupying a structural hole position to overcome the lack of heterogeneity within their teams. However, whether those organizations can occupy such a network position is contingent on environmental and organizational factors. We find that a firm’s founding team homogeneity is positively related to the occupancy of a structural hole position. However, this relationship is weakened when this firm operates in a community with strong localism or when the firm's founding team has a higher proportion of immigrant members, whereas the relationship is strengthened by local partnership experience of the firm.