Abstract
ABSTRACT Action-based college Entrepreneurial Education (EE) is trying to stimulate explorative and exploitive actions in consulting networks provided with venture simulations, to enhance knowledge performance. As networks play an increasingly important role in college EE, inequality between students in the central part and those in the peripheral is on the horizon. Different from the traditional view of examining the resource advantages of centralized people, this paper proposes and tests the disadvantages of those in the peripheral on performance improvement. Moreover, it taps into the influencing mechanism of vigorously developed competition on network centrality and knowledge performance, to compensate for the disadvantages of those in the periphery. The findings show that privileges brought with central positions in networks exist, leaving people in the periphery at the disadvantage of performance improvement. Students’ competition experiences weaken the relationship between in-degree centrality and knowledge performance. Competition experiences are beneficial for students at various network positions, especially for those in the periphery. This study proposes a framework of integrating the mode of “learning by doing” in networks in class and students’ competition experiences after school, enabling future studies to tap into the correction mechanism of competition trend in inequality in network structures.
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