TY - JOUR
T1 - An empirical study on tacit knowledge sharing based on social network analysis
AU - Jiang, Peng
AU - Le, Zhongjian
AU - Ding, Juling
AU - Guo, Yong
AU - Lee, Changhoon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Taiwan Academic Network Management Committee. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - At present, entrepreneurship education research has become the current research focus. The research of entrepreneurial education mainly studies the quality of entrepreneurs and the curriculum system of entrepreneurship education. Some researchers study entrepreneurial education through knowledge sharing, especially tacit knowledge sharing. With China’s “popular entrepreneurship and innovation”, entrepreneurship education research to a higher level. Status shows that the current college entrepreneurial rate is low, but Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College students entrepreneurial rate reached a leading level in the world. However, the student entrepreneurial rate is still ahead of the national level, but the student business rate has declined since 2015. Therefore, in order to understand this situation and continue to maintain a higher rate of entrepreneurship, this study choose from the perspective of tacit knowledge sharing, the use of social network analysis method to study the problem. First, this study discusses the elements of tacit knowledge sharing in social network of entrepreneurial class from the aspects of network density and distance, centrality, cohesion and structural hole analysis. Secondly, taking social network established by an entrepreneurship class students of Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College as an example through interviews and questionnaires. Thirdly, the social network analysis (SNA) method is used to study the exchange and sharing of entrepreneurial tacit knowledge in this social network. Through the study, it is found that there are a series of factors that hinder the spread of tacit knowledge in the existing social network of entrepreneurship class, which indirectly affects the efficiency of entrepreneurship education. Finally, this paper puts forward some corresponding countermeasures and suggestions on these problems which can be used to improve the entrepreneurial rate of college students and to promote the sustainable development of national economy.
AB - At present, entrepreneurship education research has become the current research focus. The research of entrepreneurial education mainly studies the quality of entrepreneurs and the curriculum system of entrepreneurship education. Some researchers study entrepreneurial education through knowledge sharing, especially tacit knowledge sharing. With China’s “popular entrepreneurship and innovation”, entrepreneurship education research to a higher level. Status shows that the current college entrepreneurial rate is low, but Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College students entrepreneurial rate reached a leading level in the world. However, the student entrepreneurial rate is still ahead of the national level, but the student business rate has declined since 2015. Therefore, in order to understand this situation and continue to maintain a higher rate of entrepreneurship, this study choose from the perspective of tacit knowledge sharing, the use of social network analysis method to study the problem. First, this study discusses the elements of tacit knowledge sharing in social network of entrepreneurial class from the aspects of network density and distance, centrality, cohesion and structural hole analysis. Secondly, taking social network established by an entrepreneurship class students of Yiwu Industrial and Commercial College as an example through interviews and questionnaires. Thirdly, the social network analysis (SNA) method is used to study the exchange and sharing of entrepreneurial tacit knowledge in this social network. Through the study, it is found that there are a series of factors that hinder the spread of tacit knowledge in the existing social network of entrepreneurship class, which indirectly affects the efficiency of entrepreneurship education. Finally, this paper puts forward some corresponding countermeasures and suggestions on these problems which can be used to improve the entrepreneurial rate of college students and to promote the sustainable development of national economy.
KW - Empirical study
KW - Entrepreneurial education
KW - Sharing of knowledge
KW - Social network analysis
KW - Tacit knowledge
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U2 - 10.3966/160792642019032002016
DO - 10.3966/160792642019032002016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85071147980
SN - 1607-9264
VL - 20
SP - 483
EP - 489
JO - Journal of Internet Technology
JF - Journal of Internet Technology
IS - 2
ER -