 Are ‘sea turtles’ slower? Returnee entrepreneurs, venture resources and speed of entrepreneurial entryFei Qin, Mike Wright and Jian Gao Journal of Business Venturing, 2017, vol. 32, issue 6, 694-706 Abstract: We add to neglected research on how venture resources and founder experience outside the home country interplay in facilitating venture creation speed. In particular, we investigate how returnee entrepreneurs influence the role of venture resources in the speed of entrepreneurial entry. Using a novel sample of 388 new ventures covering a range of technologies in China, we find that returnees from abroad are slower in new venture entry in the home country, compared with homegrown entrepreneurs. At the same time, ventures with innovative technology and backed by foreign capital are slower to set up due to higher levels of liability of newness and liability of foreignness. However, when these firms have a returnee founder who can leverage their experience with foreign resources and technological knowhow, such negative effects on entry speed are significantly mitigated. We discuss implications for further research and practice. Keywords: Returnee entrepreneurs; Liability of foreignness; Entrepreneurial entry; Speed of entry; New venture creation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbvent:v:32:y:2017:i:6:p:694-706 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2017.08.003 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Business Venturing is currently edited by S. Venkataraman More articles in Journal of Business Venturing from Elsevier |
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