Abstract: Taking 396 family enterprises as effective samples, this paper constructs and tests the relationship between the intergenerational differences of entrepreneurs' social network structure and the inheritance performance of family enterprises through a three-stage questionnaire survey. The empirical results show that: after intergenerational inheritance, the decrease of social network scale, network connection strength and network density of successor entrepreneurs relative to former entrepreneurs has a negative impact on the relationship performance and business performance of enterprise inheritance, but the impact of network centrality difference has not been confirmed; organizational silence plays a mediating role between the two relationships; organizational silence plays a mediating role in the relationship; the inheritance model strengthens the relationship between the structural differences of entrepreneurs' social networks and the inheritance performance of family businesses.
