This study investigates whether the emotional support individuals have available from their social network influences the likelihood that they in turn provide instrumental support to entrepreneurs they know: if they pass on the good vibes. Hypotheses are tested on a Danish data set consisting of individuals who know a nascent entrepreneur (N = 392). The article demonstrates how emotional support made available to individuals from their social network impacts the likelihood of them providing entrepreneurs with instrumental support. Furthermore, findings show how the relation between available emotional support and the provision of instrumental support depends on culturally defined norms associated with various role-relationships and gender. The study contributes to existing theory by changing the perspective from focusing only on differences in characteristics between entrepreneurs to how the individuals in entrepreneurs’ social networks differ in characteristics and how this affects their social support to entrepreneurs. Furthermore, a significant contribution is the demonstration of how the provision of social support to entrepreneurs is contingent on different role-relationships.

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传递良好的氛围：企业家的社会支持

这项研究调查了个人从他们的社交网络中获得的情感支持是否会影响他们反过来向他们认识的企业家提供工具支持的可能性：如果他们传递良好的氛围。假设在丹麦数据集上进行测试，该数据集由认识新生企业家的个人组成（N = 392）。这篇文章展示了从个人社交网络向个人提供的情感支持如何影响他们向企业家提供工具性支持的可能性。此外，研究结果表明，可获得的情感支持与提供工具性支持之间的关系如何取决于与各种角色关系和性别相关的文化定义规范。该研究将视角从仅关注企业家之间的特征差异转变为企业家社交网络中的个人特征如何不同以及这如何影响他们对企业家的社会支持，从而为现有理论做出贡献。此外，一个重要的贡献是展示了向企业家提供社会支持如何取决于不同的角色关系。