Transnational or Social Capital?: Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs

Title
Transnational or Social Capital?: Returned Scholars as Private Entrepreneurs
Publication Date
2006
Author(s)
Vanhonacker, Wilfried R
Zweig, David
Chung, Siu
Editor
Editor(s): Anne S Tsui, Yanjie Bian, and Leonard Cheng
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
ME Sharpe, Inc
Place of publication
New York, United States of America
UNE publication id
une:6402
Abstract
What is the impact of internationalization on the development of the private sector in China? China's planned entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) built enormous pressure in China to expand the private sector (Lardy 2002), particularly in areas such as the privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private foreign trade companies. Similarly, many new private firms are run by mainland entrepreneurs who returned from studying and/or working overseas (Ben 2002, Wei 2002), a phenomenon that combines privatization and internationalization. Returned entrepreneurs bring back global networks, knowledge of overseas markets, foreign technologies, and international management experience. Their strategic perspectives may reflect overseas business attitudes more than domestic views about management. They can, therefore, have advantages over people who have not gone overseas.
Link
Citation
China's Domestic Private Firms: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Management and Performance, p. 65-81
ISBN
0765613824
9780765613837
9780765613820
Start page
65
End page
81

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