Network Agency in Entrepreneurship: A Synthesis and Outlook
这篇综述整合了创业中关于网络能动性的零散研究，探讨创业者如何主动塑造、管理和发展其社会网络，而非被动受其影响，适合关注创业者网络行为的学者阅读。
Network agency matters in entrepreneurship. As purposeful agents, entrepreneurs actively interact with their surroundings. However, scholars only have limited and dispersed knowledge about the antecedents, mechanisms, and outcomes of entrepreneurs’ network agency. We performed an integrative review of network agency in entrepreneurship to provide a much-needed synthesis of the fragmented insights into this topic. By moving away from a deterministic approach in which social structures shape entrepreneurs’ destinies and toward an agentic approach in which social networks shape entrepreneurs while simultaneously being shaped, managed, and developed by them, we contribute to a refined understanding of social networks.