Entrepreneurs are active networkers, network connections change over time, new contacts are added and others are dropped. Entrepreneurial networking is an integral part of entrepreneurial processes and can be a strategic and goal-oriented response to resource requirements, while it can also be...

1. Entrepreneurship and firm-cluster interactions : new insights / Cristina Boari, Tom Elfring, and F. Xavier Molina-Morales -- 2. How networks evolve during advanced stages of the cluster life cycle? / Jose Antonio Belso-Martinez -- 3. Cluster management organizations as intermediary actors of...

Despite a surge of studies examining the role of social capital in the entrepreneurial process, no quantitative assessments exist of the empirical evidence to date. To resolve seemingly conflicting results, we conducted a meta-analysis of the link between entrepreneurs’ personal networks and...