ABSTRACT
To Economic Sociology, social structures, in the form of interpersonal ties, influence individual initiatives and economic results derived therefrom. According to Granovetter, there are three basic types of ties: strongly coupled; decoupled and weakly coupled. This work is situated in the context of these reflections, and we try to identify, through a sample survey of 100 entrepreneurs in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, the original social structures of these individuals, in line with Granovetter's generic typology; to assess the presence of associations between these structures and the trajectory of the projects, especially the motivation to undertake and market access. We finish developing a typology of structures / specific social networks for the entrepreneur's analysis, consisting of three categories: family, professional and diffuse.
Keywords:
typology; business creation; structure; social networks; coupling; decoupling
