Abstract: Academic study of the relationship between social network and innovation of entrepreneur has been in dispute. On one hand, the lack of in-depth investigation of dual nature of entrepreneur’s social network; on the other hand it failed to take into account the situational conditions of entrepreneur’s social network influence on innovation. This paper takes the private domestic high-tech enterprises as samples, to explore the relationship between entrepreneur’s social network and innovation performance, and to examine the moderating effect of organizational slack on the relationship between the two. Results show that the universality of entrepreneurial social network has "U" type relationship with intensity and innovation performance. Organizational slack plays a moderating effect on the relationship between the two, namely organizational slack has a positive moderating effect on entrepreneur social network’s intensity relation influence on the innovation performance; and has a negative moderating effect on the relationship between entrepreneur social network’s width and innovation performance. Finally, implications for management practice and future research direction are been discussed.

摘要： 学术界对企业家社会网络与创新关系的研究一直处于争议状态，一方面缺乏对企业家社会网络两面性的深入考察，另一方面未能考虑到企业家社会网络对创新影响的情境条件。本文以国内高技术民营企业为样本，探讨企业家社会网络与创新绩效之间的关系，并检验组织冗余对二者之间关系的调节作用。结论表明，企业家社会网络的广泛性、关系强度与创新绩效之间具有倒“U”型关系。而组织冗余在两者的关系中发挥调节效应，即组织冗余正向调节企业家社会网络关系强度对企业创新绩效影响；负向调节企业家社会网络的广泛性与企业创新绩效的关系。最后，本文对研究的管理实践意涵和后续研究方向进行了讨论。