Social networks, information, businesses genesis and survival

Abstract

This article sheds light, on both theoretical and methodological grounds, on businesses creation and survival as well as the underlying influences of embeddedness and entrepreneurial social network in this process. The empirical foundations spring from a field research discerning, in the context of a universe of businesses cases, between those surviving ones and those short lived. Data treatment was enhanced by special indicators for embeddedeness and network information circulation. Results support the view that social networks influence the processes.