Human Capital, Social Capital and Opportunity Discovery：The Mediating Role of Web-entrepreneurs' Creativity
| Autor: | Po-Hsuan Chen, 陳柏瑄 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 101 The existing studies of web-entrepreneurs are not sufficient to reveal the importance of web-entrepreneurs’ creativity; and further, the existing lectures are inadequate to explore web-entrepreneurs as a mediator between human and social capitals, and opportunity discovery. The explanation of lacking sufficient studies of web-entrepreneurs is because most of the studies related to entrepreneur in Internet context focused on consumers rather than entrepreneurs. Therefore, there is a need to fill this gap with an understanding of taking web-entrepreneurs’ creativity as a mediator between human and social capitals, and opportunity discovery. The purpose of this paper is to explore how human capital and social capital affect web-entrepreneurs’ creativity, thereby influencing opportunity discovery. Human capital consists of entrepreneurial intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, education, and experience; and social capital consists of internal social capital and external social capital. For this study, we acquired responds from 484 participants who attended the course of Young Start-Up Loans, which was held by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, R.O.C. in the central Taiwan region. All 484 participants who joined the course fit two criteria： (1) people, whether they possess the entrepreneurial experiences of utilizing Internet or not, intend to start their own enterprises through the Internet in the near future; (2) people who want to apply for Young Start-Up loans provided by the government in Taiwan as being a web-entrepreneur. The main findings suggest that human capital and external social capital are positively correlated to entrepreneurial creativity, where intrinsic motivation is the most important factor. Surprisingly, internal social capital has a negative correlation with entrepreneurial creativity. |
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