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Informational Networks, Entrepreneurial Action and Performance

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This paper develops a model that incorporates personal and business networks, firm action, and performance based on the existing literature. It explores the links between information and entrepreneurial-type action, and action and performance. Survey data was collected from a sample of 100 manufacturing firms in Thailand. Results show that entrepreneurs value the information they receive from their networks. However, there is little statistical support for tangible links between personal or business networks and entrepreneurial action and performance, or between action and performance.

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  1. Department of Management—M950, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR

    John E. Butler

  2. McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 22903, USA

    Brad Brown

  3. Department of Human Resources and Organization Management, Faculty of Commerce and Accountancy, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

    Wai Chamornmarn

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Butler, J.E., Brown, B. & Chamornmarn, W. Informational Networks, Entrepreneurial Action and Performance. Asia Pacific Journal of Management 20, 151–174 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023808415402

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