Research on the Effect Mechanism of Social Network on Knowledge Acquisition in New Ventures

In the knowledge economic times,knowledge has become an important strategic resource for enterprises to gain a competitive advantage.While social network can help enterprises to obtain timely and accurate information,and it also can provide enterprises with access to knowledge.In this paper,we based on the actors and the structure of social network,to build a concept model which includes network size,network intensity and knowledge acquisition.We made a conclusion through analyzing deeply the two dimensions of network actors,two dimensions of network structure and the interaction of the network actors and network structure,the results show that they all promote new ventures knowledge acquisition.