Entrepreneurs have two key aims in managing their ego-networks: extending reach to valuable resources and facilitating resource acquisition. This study provides a synthesis of the brokerage, cohesion, and embeddedness literatures to develop and present a multilevel theoretical framework and...

Studies of entrepreneurial networks have largely overlooked configurational research, which is concerned with organizational diversity. We suggest that this is due to conceptual and methodological constraints that restrict studies to concentrate on one or other of the two dominant network...