Staged entrepreneurship performance in service industry and the role of corporate social capital

Service industry in China has entering a period of fast growth and has been regarded as the most robust industry in China because of the high added value and relative bigger market. So entrepreneurship in this industry becomes a very popular phenomenon in recent years. The main purpose of this study is to explore the effect of corporate social capital in different stage of service industry entrepreneurship. This paper extends earlier research with focusing on service industry and with statistical analysis. By interviewing 231 enterprises from service industry, this study employs the method of statistical analysis to find out the effect of two kinds of corporate social capital on different 4 stages of entrepreneurship. The results indicate that social capital does positive effect in 4 stages of entrepreneurship like other industries , but in growth stage cognitive social capital does not has relationship with entrepreneurship performance, some reasons for the results are discussed.