Author(s)

Chi-Chung Tsaiand Deng-Feng Li

Corresponding Author

Deng-Feng Li

Abstract

The flow cycle of social capital is constantly shortened, the flow speed is also accelerating, based on this social capital exchanges between Taiwan and the mainland is increasingly frequent, providing more entrepreneurial opportunities for Taiwan, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises(SMSE) began to rise. The entrepreneurial performance(EP) of SMSE in Taiwan has a profound impact on its overall economic development. At present, the research in this field is mainly descriptive and policy research. The purpose of this study is to provide positive and beneficial guidance for the future development of SMSE in Taiwan by exploring the factors that influence the EP of SMSE in the context of social capital flows. Based on the special background of the social capital flow as the breakthrough point, first of all, the concept of social capital and EP were summarized, mainly adopts questionnaire investigation into the small and medium-sized enterprise of Taiwan, and then with the help of principal component analysis to determine the main influencing factors of the performance of small and medium-sized enterprise business in Taiwan, and on the basis of this puts forward the concrete strategy of small and medium-sized enterprise business performance improvement. The experimental results of this paper show that the main factors influencing the EP of smes under the condition of social capital flow are entrepreneurial resources, entrepreneurial strategy and entrepreneurial environment.

Keywords

Social Capital; Taiwan Area; Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; Entrepreneurial Performance