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作者：Amin, Joris; van Burg, Elco; Stam, Wouter
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：Highly educated refugees who have been uprooted from their country of origin often struggle to secure employment that matches their abilities. Overcoming this sudden loss of achieved work identity is crucial for refugees' future well-being and integration in the host country. In this study, we identify the behavioral and cognitive practices used by highly educated refugee entrepreneurs to resolve the incongruence between their selves and the host country environment and delineate core conditio...
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作者：Acosta, Camilo; Marinoni, Astrid
作者单位：Universidad EAFIT; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Immigrant entrepreneurs are a major driver of economic growth, and their decisions about where to locate can greatly affect the entrepreneurial ecosystem of a country. Meanwhile, increasingly uncertain immigration environments might discourage immigrants from establishing new ventures in host countries. This paper exploits the unexpected result of the Brexit referendum to investigate the relationship between immigration uncertainty and the entry of immigrant-founded ventures of different quali...
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作者：Uhlbach, Wolf-Hendrik; Anckaert, Paul-Emmanuel
作者单位：Tilburg University; SKEMA Business School
摘要：Prior research ascribes an important role to highly skilled immigrants in the production and diffusion of knowledge. However, little is known about their contributions to shaping the type and direction of organizational innovation. We aim to shed light on this question by investigating how newly hired foreign research and development (R&D) workers affect firm-level exploration. We argue that foreign R&D hires enable firms to overcome local search by making them aware of and providing access to...
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作者：Fry, Caroline; Furman, Jeffrey L.
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：As agents who have the opportunity to develop connections in multiple geographic locations and networks, migrants are uniquely suited to play brokerage roles in science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. But can they succeed in connecting others in their home and host environments? We investigate this question in the context of women in science in the developing world. We hypothesize that the extent to which such scholars facilitate connections will depend upon the extent to which their home a...
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作者：Koo, Wesley Wu-Yi; Eesley, Charles Eric
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University; Stanford University
摘要：Despite the rise of digital platforms that connect rural entrepreneurs to urban customers, rural online businesses are hampered by a lack of talent. Some have pointed to the potentially enabling role of rural returnees. However, although international returnees bring valuable knowledge to businesses in their home countries, it is unclear how domestic returnees affect entrepreneurship in rural, underdeveloped parts of their country. We study this question using a natural experiment involving a ...
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作者：Kerr, William R.
作者单位：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：We study the relationship between firm centralization and organizational reproduction in satellite locations. For decentralized firms, the ethnic compositions of inventors in satellite locations mostly resemble their host cities with little link to the inventor composition of their parent firms' research and development headquarters. For highly centralized firms, by contrast, organizational reproduction has an explanatory power equal to half or more of the host city effect. Reproduction is str...
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作者：Kang, Hyo; Eklund, John C.
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：We examine how employees' short-term visits between research and development (R&D) centers across different countries can enhance a firm's invention outcomes through enhancing intraorganizational knowledge flows and mutual trust between scientists. We utilize the staggered introduction of the U.S. visa waiver program (VWP) to 41 countries in 1988-2023, which substantially increased short-term visits to the United States. Following the introduction of the VWP, global pharmaceutical companies wi...
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作者：Santangelo, Grazia D.; Rocha, Vera; Sofka, Wolfgang
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Liverpool
摘要：Prior research on the performance effects of hiring immigrants has mainly considered people who choose to move to other countries. We shift attention to forced migrants (i.e., refugees) and study the relationship between their employment and firm performance. We focus on the specific labor market conditions that refugees face and theorize that performance improves among firms that hire refugees. We explain this relationship using two interconnected mechanisms that revolve around refugees' limi...
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作者：Hernandez, Exequiel; Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Kulchina, Elena; Wang, Dan; Shaver, J. Myles; Zellmer-Bruhn, Mary; Khanna, Tarun
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University; North Carolina State University; Columbia University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Migration is one of the most significant forces shaping economies and societies, yet it remains largely understudied in organizational research. At the same time, scholars in other fields with long traditions of studying migration tend to overlook the essential role of organizations. This lack of dialogue is striking because organizations are often the central arena in which migrants interact with others and through which they impact society and the economy. We explain how scholars of migratio...
