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Catch 22? Technology-Advanced Returnee Entrepreneur, Home-Country Political Relationships and Challenges From Increasing Geopolitical Tension

Wensong Bai (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Pao T. Kao (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Diversity in Action

ISBN: 978-1-80117-227-1, eISBN: 978-1-80117-226-4

Publication date: 5 September 2022

Abstract

As part of the mobility of global talent, returnee entrepreneurs from emerging markets with advance technology are particularly challenged by the increasing geopolitical tension. Returnee entrepreneurs have a stronger reliance on the political relationship when establishing successful business at the home countries. Yet this connection with home-country political actors can negatively affect their technology competence obtained from the host countries during geopolitical uncertainty and turbulence. We empirically investigate the challenges that technology-advanced returnee entrepreneurs encountered in the home market from the changes occurred while they were away, as well as the needs to obtain critical resource and gain market entry for adapting the advance technology possessed from aboard. Our aim, nevertheless, is to expand the discussion of the returnee entrepreneurs in the context of current world where unpredictable geopolitical tensions can jeopardize the success of their business. Our study contributes a nuanced understanding of the key factor that driving business success may turn to a trap that constrains returnee entrepreneurship, and accordingly proposes a future research agenda for returnee entrepreneurship and international human mobility in general.

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Bai, W. and Kao, P.T. (2022), "Catch 22? Technology-Advanced Returnee Entrepreneur, Home-Country Political Relationships and Challenges From Increasing Geopolitical Tension", Latukha, M. (Ed.) Diversity in Action, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 151-167. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-226-420221009

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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