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The Connections Between Founders’ Social Network and Human Capital in Technology-Based New Ventures

  • Lee J. Zane EMAIL logo and Donna Marie DeCarolis

Abstract

This research examines the relationship between a founding team’s social network and the acquisition of its critical human capital. First, explicitly dealing with technology-based firms, we disaggregate the founder(s) social network into four sub-networks: academic, industry, finance, and personal (family and community). Then, we detail the relationship between these individual sub-networks and the acquisition of both technical and business skilled human capital. Our results confirm that individual sub-networks have a differential effect on acquiring both technical and business human capital.


Corresponding author: Lee J. Zane, Department of Management & Entrepreneurship, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Rd, Business Hall, Glassboro, NJ 08028-1700, USA, E-mail:

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Received: 2020-12-09
Accepted: 2021-11-19
Published Online: 2021-12-10

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