This thesis focuses on returnee entrepreneurs in a large industrial cluster, ZhongguancunScience Park in Beijing, based on a combined quantitative and qualitative method. Usinga hand-collected dataset of returnee entrepreneur-owned 353 SMEs (small and mediumenterprises) and local...

Using novel survey data, we examine the relationship between returnee entrepreneurs, multinational enterprise (MNE) working experience and firms' innovation performance in high-tech SMEs in China. We adopt an integrated framework which combines the knowledge based view and social capital theory...

Building on the knowledge-based view and network perspectives, this paper explores the relationships between knowledge, networks and firm performance. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset of 353 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) of returning entrepreneurs and 358 local entrepreneur-owned...