Peers and social network in the entrepreneurial development: a systematic literature review

The literature on how social factors influences the entrepreneurship process has recently developed considerably. However, this literature is fragmented and this prevents scholars from elaborating valuable implications for entrepreneurship education. In this paper, practicing a systematic literature review, we synthesize the research on social networks and peer to classify their impact on entrepreneurial intention. The aim is to identify how and in what direction these mechanisms can operate to strengthen entrepreneurship education effectiveness. We found that the social network and peer networking literature has shown the significant influence of both variables on opportunity identification and entrepreneurial intention as a primary phase of the entrepreneurship process. We then propose a framework to summarize our findings by presenting the implication of our result in the entrepreneurship education filed.