Internet Embeddedness,Resource Acquisition and New Farmers'Entrepreneurial Growth Performance
Based on the survey data of 512 new farmers in Jiangxi,Henan and Anhui provinces,putting internet thinking into internet embedded variables,this paper investigates the effect of internet embed-dedness on the entrepreneurial performance of new farmers using an endogenous switching regression(ESR)model,and empirically examines the transmission mechanism of resource acquisition between the two by an intermediary effect model.The results showed that internet embeddedness significantly im-proved the entrepreneurial performance while increased the gap rate of new farmers.Compared with retur-ning migrant workers and local agricultural entrepreneurs,it has a greater promoting effect on the entre-preneurial growth performance of returning college students and cross-border entrepreneurs;compared with non-new business entities,it has a greater promoting effect on the entrepreneurial growth perform-ance of new business entities such as new farmers.The results of mechanism analysis show that internet embeddedness can promote the human resources,social resources,financial resources and policy re-sources of new farmers,and improve their entrepreneurial performance.Therefore,we should increase the level and resources accessibility of internet embeddedness and enhance its role on entrepreneurial per-formance by adopting differentiated policy support,strengthening support for vulnerable new farmers and promote their all-round healthy growth.
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