Influence of Social Network Strength on Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition: A Chain Mediation Model of Need Knowledge and Technological Knowledge

Table 5

Results of hypothesis test.

Path	Effect	Bootstrap SE	95% bias-corrected CI		95% percentile CI		Conclusion
			Lower bound	Upper bound	Lower bound	Upper bound
H1: SNS⟶EOR	0.132	0.042	0.051	0.217	0.047	0.212	Supported
H2: SNS⟶NK⟶EOR	0.122	0.041	0.055	0.219	0.052	0.214	Supported
H3: SNS⟶TK⟶EOR	0.014	0.018	−0.010	0.067	−0.013	0.059	Not supported
H4: SNS⟶NK⟶TK⟶EOR	0.057	0.026	0.019	0.125	0.013	0.114	Supported

Note. Effects are unstandardized effects. SE = standard error, CI = confidence interval, SNS = social network strength, EOR = entrepreneurial opportunity recognition, NK = need knowledge, and TK = technological knowledge.