Notice of RetractionThe study of the influence mechanism of entrepreneurial social capital based on the theory of structural holes

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Based on the theory of Structural hole, the theoretical model of the mechanism of the entrepreneurial social capital (ESC) is constructed in this paper within three levels, i.e., the structural, resources and strategic level. The results of structural equation model (SEM) show that the nonredundancy improved the ESC significantly in all the three levels. However, the effect of the structural autonomy is significant in just the structural and resources level and the effect of the structural hole strategy reached significant only in the strategic level. We also find a significant correlation between the structural autonomy and the nonredundancy, but no relations between the structural autonomy and the structural hole strategy and the nonredundancy and the structural hole strategy reached significant. Our study also show that the control benefits of the entrepreneurial relation network and the information benefits of the entrepreneurial social resources had a significant influence to the effectiveness of the entrepreneurial opportunity strategy. Suggestions for ESC proliferation are made according to the results.