기업가의 자아효능감과 네트워크 유형이 신생·성장기업 성과에 미치는 영향

Recently, experts are paying attention to the feasibility of advanced research that the success or fail of ventures is dependent upon entrepreneurs' network activities. In this regard, this study mainly aims to investigate into the effects of the self-efficacy and network types, which are emerging as important antecedent variables which will affect network activities, on the performances of new and growing firms, respectively. To do that, questionnaires were sent to and collected from 618 entrepreneurs of domestic ventures. The findings are listed below. First, entrepreneurs' self-efficacy, which is a cognitive factor, had a significant effect on the frequency of the utilization of networks, the reliability of networks and the performance of firms. Second, of entrepreneurs' network activities, the network reliability had a significant effect on the performance of enterprises while the frequency of the utilization of networks did not. Third, entrepreneurs' formal networks and informal networks respectively had a different effect depending upon their firms' growing stage. In other words, informal networks were relatively important to new firms while only formal networks had a significant effect on growing firms. This study suggests that the frequency of entrepreneurs' utilization of networks is less important than the reliability of the networks. Also, from a practical viewpoint, it suggests that network strategies should be changed in accordance with ventures' growing stage since formal or informal networks have a different effect depending on the firms' growing stage. Meanwhile, this study is differentiated from others since it has proved that a cognitive factor or entrepreneurs' self-efficacy is such an important variable as allows the situational variable or networking to have a significant effect on the performances of ventures.