Thursday, June 12, 2014 | 12:30pm - 2:00pm  | Room 335, HSBC Business School Building

Abstract

Extending the knowledge spillover perspective of entrepreneurship to a transnational context, we investigate the extent to which international knowledge spillovers affect returnees’ entrepreneurial decisions and the moderating effect of policy support in their home country as well as their cross-cultural adjustment. By analyzing first-hand survey data of Chinese returnees, we find a positive relationship between new technologies brought back by returnees and the tendency to become entrepreneurs. Such a positive relationship is further strengthened by supportive policies in the home country, but is weakened by returnees’ difficulties in readjusting to local culture in the home country.