关键词: 创始人, 前摄性, 社会网络, 创新绩效, Founder, Proactive Personality, Social Networks, Innovation Performance

Abstract: We build a theoretical model about the relationship among founder’s proactive personality, social networks and innovation performance based on the theoretical research. By using the method of multiple regression analysis and taking survey data from 148 questionnaires, we analyzed the relationships among them including the intermediary role of social networks between the other two variables. The results show that in the social networks dimension, the network heterogeneity, network size have a significantly positive influence on innovation performance; the social networks have a partial intermediary role between the founder's proactive personality and innovation performance. Above conclusions deepen the understanding of the relationships among the founder’s proactive personality, social networks and innovation performance. The results also reveal the mechanism of the founder’s proactive personality, social networks and innovation performance, provides a theoretical reference for shaping founder’s personality traits in the development model of enterprise networking.