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The Impact of Entrepreneur Social Networks on the Perfor_x005fmance of SMEs in Guizhou

Xuren Wei, Jack Watt

Abstract


Small and micro enterprises have a vast number and are an essential part of the national economy. They play an important role in
GDP growth, providing jobs, stabilizing prices, and diversifying products and services. However, due to limited funds, small scale, and single
business, SMEs face problems such as lack of resources, weak technological innovation capabilities, and weak market competitiveness. In
the fierce market competition, SMEs have more and more room for survival and development. Small, showing a situation of surviving in the
cracks. To eliminate the problematic dilemma of survival and growth, entrepreneurs usually use their social networks to explore the logic and
path of integrating resources and form resource integration advantages to obtain more social resources and increase access to social resources
and technological innovation, channels to improve the performance of SMEs.

Keywords


Entrepreneur; Social Network; and SMEs

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/fm.v9i1.12075

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