文献类型：会议论文

英文题名：Studies on the Relationship between Social Network and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises' Growth Performance-Based on Survey of 200 Enterprises in Beijing High-End Industrial Park

作者：Tao, Qiuyan[1];Wang, Xinyu[2];Chen, Xiongying[2];Liu, Lingling[1]

第一作者：陶秋燕

通讯作者：Wang, XY[1]

机构：[1]Beijing Union Univ, Sch Management, Beijing, Peoples R China;[2]Beijing Union Univ, Biochem Engn Sch, Beijing, Peoples R China

第一机构：北京联合大学管理学院

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Beijing Union Univ, Biochem Engn Sch, Beijing, Peoples R China.|[1141726]北京联合大学生物化学工程学院;[11417]北京联合大学;

会议论文集：International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Statistics Research (AMSR) / International Conference on Public Administration (ICPAD)

会议日期：APR 18-20, 2014

会议地点：Changsha, PEOPLES R CHINA

语种：英文

摘要：Now, more and more Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises realize the importance of social networks, and actively build their social network. However, most enterprises have a lot of problems in terms of identification, construction of cooperation network and coordinated growth. This paper uses the structural equation modeling (SEM) and correlation analysis methods to make some analysis on the relationship between social network and SMEs' growth performance from three dimensions--relation intensity, relation quality and network scale, and discuss the construction status and problems of enterprises' social network. Through data analysis and research, this paper finds: (1) the relationship between the level of social network and enterprise performance is significant positive, and different dimensions of social networks have different influence on the growth performance of enterprises; (2) the influence of network scale on growth performance is the biggest, while the function of relationship intensity and relationship quality is smaller than that of network scale; (3) the social network construction was unbalanced, and the enterprises pay more attention on the "quantity" construction of social network, while ignored the "quality" of network relationship; and (4) the cooperation among enterprises with government, financial institutions, academic institutions and intermediaries should be enhanced. The paper also puts forward some measures to perfect the social network so as to improve the enterprise growth. Amid the fierce competitive and rapid product upgrading environment, it's already been hard for the enterprises to gain a foothold and development by completely relying on their own strength. Enterprise growth is increasingly dependent on the access to external resources, the channel of which is usually complex, overlapping social networks entwined by various relationships. Enterprises have realized that it will be more beneficial for self-growth and development if they team up with other enterprises, college, scientific research institutions, government and intermediary institutions to form a collaboration network through the contractual relationship, cooperation network and social relationship, especially in the time of current 'open development'. As for the small and mediate-sized enterprises, which are accounting for 99% of the national business entities, are faced with the problems of weak overall strength, slow change of the development mode, and unsmooth financing channel. The important root causes behind these problems are the un-sufficient enterprise internal resources and enterprises' weak growth ability, as a result of which the accessible and useful resources are bounded, leaving the enterprises to bear tremendous survival pressure. It's been unrealistic for the companies to acquire and accumulate resources needed for growth to cultivate competiveness by completely relying on their own strength. It is in urgent need for the enterprises to build multidimensional relationships with various organizations as well as form a cooperative network to promote resource spillover and sharing. Although more and more small and medium-sized enterprises begin to expand self social relation networks to obtain resources in need through various channels, the situation of social network construction remains to be not optimistic, and the government and relevant departments have failed to fully play a supporting role to help the enterprises with building social relation network platform, which affects the enterprise's healthy and sustainable growth. Therefore, objective evaluation of enterprise social network status and its effect on the growth performance of the enterprises can be propitious to identify the problems in enterprises' social network construction and growth, and take timely measures to improve and perfect their social relation network. Based on the above consideration, this paper makes use of the survey data from 200 enterprises in Beijing to analyze the relationship between the status of enterprise network growth and enterprise growth performance and excavates the problems from the three aspects of the enterprise social network construction: network scale, network relation intensity and quality. Then, this paper puts forward recommendations to promote the enterprises' social relation network construction as well as their healthy and sustainable growth.