臺大管理論叢 NTU Management Review VOL.30 NO.1

Entrepreneurial Networking Actions and Innovativeness of Opportunities: The Moderator Role of Venture Stage 58 types of social networks, forms, or structures. Alternatively, a long-term study can be conducted to determine how to mitigate the problems associated with common method variance (Podsakoff et al., 2003). Due to the difficulties in contacting entrepreneurs, this study is based on 86 valid questionnaires. This relatively low retrieval rate indicates that the sample may not sufficiently represent the studied population. In addition, the results of this study are applicable only to the ICT industry. Future studies can compare firms in various industries or countries. Finally, this study investigates individual entrepreneurs; thus, the results do not apply to the effects of social networks on higher-level organizations. Because entrepreneurship requires a team to focus the abilities of various professionals on innovation, future studies may apply team-level factors to investigate the effects of social networking strategies used by various organizational members on the innovativeness of opportunities.