With the continuous development of Internet technology,the cost and threshold for people to realize their creativity and obtain resources are constantly reduced.More and more users are changing from receivers of product value to creators of product value,and user entrepreneurship occupies a place in the innovation and entrepreneurship market.However,existing literature on user entrepreneurship related fields still focuses on the user innovation stage,with only a few studies extending user innovation to the user entrepreneurship stage;There are many studies on the motivation and influencing factors of user entrepreneurship in existing literature,but there is relatively little focus on the research of user entrepreneurship process patterns and their performance mechanisms.This article conducts a literature review of existing research in the field of user innovation and entrepreneurship,summarizes the definitions of user entrepreneurship modes,user entrepreneurship performance and crowd innovation space network embeddedness,furthermore,constructs their impact mechanism models to enrich the research in the field of user entrepreneurship.

Jinbo Zhou, Haiqiong Wu. A research on the relationship among crowd innovation space network embeddedness, user entrepreneurship modes and entrepreneurial performance. Academic Journal of Business & Management (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 1: 181-190. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJBM.2025.070124.

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