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Year: 2013 | Volume: 13 | Issue: 21 | Page No.: 4624-4627
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2013.4624.4627
A Qualitative Research on Social Network and Opportunity Recognition of Social Entrepreneurship with Nvivo
Wen-Wen Sun and Ning Cai

Abstract: Analyzing types of social network and discerning impacts of different dimensions of social network on opportunity identification are very useful for research on the formation mechanism of opportunity identification in the context of social entrepreneurship. Using the Nvivo8.0 analysis software, this study discusses composition of social network and its influence on opportunity identification in social entrepreneurship, based on the qualitative study of twenty successful social entrepreneurs. This research has certain significance for potential social entrepreneurs to make full use of social network in order to identify more social opportunities.

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Wen-Wen Sun and Ning Cai, 2013. A Qualitative Research on Social Network and Opportunity Recognition of Social Entrepreneurship with Nvivo. Journal of Applied Sciences, 13: 4624-4627.

Keywords: opportunity recognition, Social entrepreneurship, social network and NVivo

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