Negative Effects of Twolevel Entrepreneurial Network of Software Parks and Firms on Firms’ Innovation
WU Bing1，WANG Zhong-ming2，TANG Ning-yu3
(1. School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237， China; 2. School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027， China;3. Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai 200030，China)
Abstract： Integrating the current research orientation in social network, the negative effects of two levels—software park and interfirm—entrepreneurial networks on the firms’innovation are analyzed. The results of 190 software firms sampled from five national software parks in China being studied show that the moderating effects of park’s entrepreneurial network characteristics are differentiating, some of which exert negative effects on innovation. Centralizationcharacteristics of park’s entrepreneurial network negatively moderate the effects of firm’s entrepreneurial network on firm’s innovation, and cliquescharacteristics positively moderate the effects of firm’s position as structure hole on innovation, but negatively moderate the effects of firm’s centrality status on innovation.
