Berlin is Hotter Than Silicon Valley! How Networking Temperature Shapes Entrepreneurs’ Networking Across Social Contexts
(2023) In Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice 47(6). p.2233-2262- Abstract
Our study contributes a contextual perspective on entrepreneurs’ networking, shifting focus from individual-level network structure and networking activities toward understanding networking as a multilevel process involving individual and contextual mechanisms. Through a multiple case study of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Berlin, we introduce networking temperature as novel concept that captures context-bound templates for how entrepreneurs should network, ranging from colder to warmer. As core implications, networking temperature enables a contextualized understanding of tie quality, to explain why networking takes different forms in different contexts, and why entrepreneurs gain more cumulative advantage from their existing... (More)
Our study contributes a contextual perspective on entrepreneurs’ networking, shifting focus from individual-level network structure and networking activities toward understanding networking as a multilevel process involving individual and contextual mechanisms. Through a multiple case study of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and Berlin, we introduce networking temperature as novel concept that captures context-bound templates for how entrepreneurs should network, ranging from colder to warmer. As core implications, networking temperature enables a contextualized understanding of tie quality, to explain why networking takes different forms in different contexts, and why entrepreneurs gain more cumulative advantage from their existing relationships in warmer than colder contexts.
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- author
- Scheidgen, Katharina LU and Brattström, Anna LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2023
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- entrepreneurs’ networking, innovative entrepreneurship, qualitative research, social contexts, structuration theory
- in
- Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
- volume
- 47
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 2233 - 2262
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85142687556
- ISSN
- 1042-2587
- DOI
- 10.1177/10422587221134787
- project
- A LONGITUDINAL PROJECT OF NEW VENTURE TEAM DYNAMICS AND OUTCOMES
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The author recieved funding from Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse. Publisher Copyright: © ©The Author(s) 2022.
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- 207d07d9-10be-4a29-af4d-cfa04cfd4f0a
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- 2022-12-12 08:25:11
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- 2024-01-09 15:47:53
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