Quantifying Entrepreneurial Networks: Data Collection in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

Sociologists, economists, and network scientists concur that the entrepreneur s network is critical to success but have consistently struggled with developing models that are measurable or quantifiable. Well-known research on this subject tends to focus on the entrepreneur s social network (Greve and Salaff, 2003, Witt,1978) and utilizes the Name Generator approach (McAllister and Fischer,1978) to develop the social network model. This method maps an ego-centered network and assembles an inventory of information about every social contact, such as the relationship between the person under analysis and the people within the social network (Van Der Gaag & Snijders, 2004).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 2013
Accession Number
ADA583173

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People

  • Daniel Evans

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Construction
  • Corporations
  • Economic Development
  • Education
  • Families (Human)
  • Generators
  • Governments
  • Intellectual Property
  • Law
  • Military Research
  • Network Science
  • Social Networks
  • Sociology
  • Students
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

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