Human Capital of Returnee Entrepreneurs: A Case Study in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 391-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Zhou ◽  
Maris Farquharson ◽  
Thomas Wing Yan Man
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Opportunity Identification ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
New Firm ◽  
Specific Human Capital

Returnee entrepreneurs (REs), who left China for education or work experience, accumulate human capital (HC) from their host countries. Such HC may be of benefit when forming new firms on their return to their home country. Insight from an in-depth case study of a service company for legal professionals, formed by three REs in Shanghai, is observed. Data were collected through participant observation and in-depth interviews. Findings indicate a contingency effect of HC. REs’ specific human capital (SHC), leveraged from their ‘host country experiences’, increased their alertness to business opportunities (i.e., opportunity identification). Their general human capital (GHC), leveraged from their ‘home and host country experiences’, prompted the new firm formation (i.e., opportunity exploitation).

scholarly journals Modeling and Estimating Host Country Values in International Projects to Facilitate In-Country Value Creation

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5592
Author(s):  
Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal ◽  
Franck Marle ◽  
Mathieu Dernis
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Domain Mapping ◽  
International Projects ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Industrial Needs

International companies are more and more seeking to act proactively by proposing In-Country Value (ICV) strategies to create sustainable local values in the host countries in which they carry out projects. Still, such sustainable local values are complex to identify because they are often indirectly related to their own value chains, project activities, and outcomes. There are, therefore, both theoretical and industrial needs to model and estimate sustainable values brought by complex projects in host countries, considering direct and indirect effects. In this paper, a systems thinking-based approach combined with a frequency analysis first permitted to build up a model of the sustainable values created by the project in a host country. Then, after underlining the complexity of such a model, a Domain Mapping Matrix (DMM) approach was proposed to help build a process to estimate project impacts in terms of ICV creation. An application to a case study built up with an industrial practitioner (an oil and gas company) permitted to test and validate the overall model and approach. It notably showed how such a model permitted to facilitate discussions among stakeholders and laid the foundations of ICV creation-oriented decision-making processes.

scholarly journals Arrival Cities: Refugees in Three German Cities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajo Neis ◽  
Briana Meier ◽  
Tomo Furukawazono
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Ruhr Area ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Cities

Since 2015, the authors have studied the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East. The intent of theproject is to not only study the refugee crisis in various spatial and architectural settings and aspectsbut also actively try to help refugees with their problems that they experience in the events fromstarting an escape and to settling in a given host country, city town or neighborhood.In this paper, the authors present three case studies in three different cities in Germany. Refugees areeverywhere in Germany, even in smaller towns and villages. The case study cities are at differentscales with Borken (15,000 people), Kassel, a mid-size city (200,000), and Essen a larger city(600,000) as part of the still larger Ruhr Area Megacity. In these cities we try to understand the life ofrefugees from their original escape country/city to their arrival in their new cities and new countries.Our work focuses on the social-spatial aspects of refugee experiences, and their impact on urbanmorphology and building typology.We also try to understand how refugees manage their new life in partial safety of place, shelter foodand financial support but also in uncertainty and insecurity until officially accepted as refugees.Beyond crisis we are looking at how refugees can and want to integrate into their host countries, citiesand neighborhoods and start a new life. Social activities and physical projects including urbanarchitecture projects for housing and work, that help the process of integration, are part of thispresentation.

Innovation-Intensive FDI and Host Country Institutions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. W. Egan
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Entry Modes ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Investment Models ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation Outcomes

This chapter moves beyond firm level attributes and economic motivations to consider the impact of host country institutions on investment models of multinationals in developing countries. It adopts a comparative institutionalist perspective, and utilizes country and firm level variables to measure governance. These measures are then employed to predict innovation outcomes. This chapter demonstrates that host country institutions affect the likelihood of local innovation taking place, and its intensity. A variety of measures of institutional coherence are developed, and address such diverse concepts as intellectual property protection, corruption, democracy, and bureaucratic quality. In addition, firm surveys are used to convey firm perceptions of institutional quality in host countries. The chapter includes a discussion of the literature on firm entry modes, and considers how other host country attributes, such as education and human capital, may influence innovation outcomes alongside institutions.

Evidence based organizational change: people surveys, strategies and structures

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (8/9) ◽  
pp. 623-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Stephen Town
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Human Capital Measurement

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of the use of people surveys to enact change in human capital organization and practices in a University library. Design/methodology/approach – The study covers seven years of people surveys and the consequent interventions applied based on this and other data and evidence at the University of York, UK. The case describes measurement of staff’s lived experience, leading to innovation and intervention in management strategies, structures and policies. The research employs a mixed methodology; the paper draws on quantitative evidence from surveys, qualitative evidence from focus groups and desk research on human capital measurement and emotion in the workplace. Findings – The paper describes the findings of investigations across seven years, discusses the available methods for people assessment, and the different theoretical foundations of the engagement, climate and excellence surveys used across the period. Strategic and structural interventions are described and their effectiveness discussed. Research limitations/implications – The limitations of research in the field of human capital are discussed, including the participant observation of the library director, together with the potential confounding factors affecting data collected during the period of research. Social implications – The paper reflects on advances in the understanding and practice of people evaluation in libraries. The development of a people strategy based on evidence, and repetition of surveys to gauge the effectiveness of interventions, with consequent refinement of solutions, appear to have had a real effect on the lived experience, culture and service provided by the case library. Originality/value – The originality and value of the paper is that it provides a unique long-term case study of people surveys, strategy and structure in an academic research library.

scholarly journals Analysis of Human Capital in Talent Management Program, Training and Development to Improve Employee Competence Case Study in BSG Group

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Prastiyo Diatmono ◽  
Siti Mariam ◽  
Abdul Haeba Ramli
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Talent Management ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Balance Scorecard ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Job Productivity

<p><em>The purpose of this research was to understand human capital analysis to talent management program, training and development to improvement employees competency. It was a qualitative research with an case study method conduct at BSG Group (6 companies) in 2019. The data were collected through participant observation using interview, observation, document study, and recording. The data analysis to understand management program was run with the company to make strategic changes to improve employees competency approach to human capital, including: (1) talent management, (2) training and development, using balance scorecard as measurement quality. The findings lead to the recommendation to make change talent management program, training and development to enhancement employees competency in linking the company's business strategy that can create an increase  job productivity and company profits in accordance with the intended purpose the support and commitment of top management and empower to all employees synergistically.</em></p><p><em> </em></p>

Varieties of capitalism in multinational companies: A comparative study of Volkswagen Slovakia and Kia Motors Slovakia

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51
Author(s):  
Thomas Haipeter ◽  
Hyung Je Jo
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Varieties Of Capitalism ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Labour Shortage ◽  
Foreign Operations ◽  
Power Position

This paper is about industrial relation (IR) strategies and practices in multinational companies (MNCs). It is based on a comparison of these practices in subsidiaries of different MNC within one country. We discuss how far differences and commonalities can be explained by national IR institutions, by company structures and cultures or by the agency of IR actors. In doing so, this will also address the broader question of how far the varieties of capitalism affect what MNCs do abroad and if, and in what way, they adapt to local conditions in terms of IRs and union structures. The paper is based on a case study comparison of two of the biggest automotive companies, Volkswagen and Hyundai, and their production locations in Slovakia. Both companies have different institutional backgrounds in their host countries with different patterns of labour relations, they are internationalized on a growing level and they both have foreign operations in identical countries like in Slovakia, which makes it possible to analyse the effects of institutions, strategies and labour agency by a comparison of establishments. There are two main findings exposing a strong interplay of the factors under scrutiny. First, in both companies, the local IR patterns are strongly shaped by the varieties of institutions at the company headquarters, whereas the IR institutions of the host country are adapted to them; and second, agency plays a growing role as the labour shortage improves the power position of the unions.

The Duality of Internal and External Development of Successors: Opportunity Recognition in Family Firms

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shruti R. Sardeshmukh ◽  
Andrew C. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Family Business ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Family Firms ◽  
Family Firm ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Specific Human Capital ◽  
General Human Capital ◽  
External Development

The study contributes to the family business literature by examining the intersection of succession and opportunities and extends an existing line of research on entrepreneurial behavior in family firms by examining opportunity perception by 119 family business successors. The authors investigate the successors’ self-efficacy, education, and work experience, together with their perception of entrepreneurial opportunities. The results suggest that successors who perceive new opportunities balance and combine their family firm—specific human capital built through experience within the family firm with general human capital built through education and other work experience to generate new ideas leading to the entrepreneurial opportunity perception.

scholarly journals Human capital investments as sources of skills: An analysis at different entrepreneurship phases

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
M. Anastacia Mamabolo ◽  
Myres Kerrin ◽  
Tumo Kele
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Capital Investments ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
Specific Investments ◽  
New Business ◽  
Human Capital Investments ◽  
Specific Human Capital

<strong>Background:</strong> Entrepreneurs need entrepreneurial skills to run their businesses. Skills can come from various sources, and the usage of the sources of skills can vary according to the different entrepreneurship phases.<p><strong>Aim:</strong> Adopting a human capital theory perspective, this study determined the specific human capital investments as sources of skills needed by entrepreneurs across the different entrepreneurship phases. The sources of skills included work experience, formal education, entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurship experience.</p><p><strong>Setting:</strong> Entrepreneurs at the different entrepreneurship phases which are nascent (entrepreneurs with ventures less than 3 months in existence), new business (entrepreneurs with ventures with more than 3 months but less than 3.5 years in existence) and established business (entrepreneurs with ventures more than 3.5 years in existence).</p><p><strong>Method:</strong> The study employed a survey research design. An online questionnaire was used to collect the data.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The results show that the sources of skills are used differently across the entrepreneurship phases. As entrepreneurs start businesses, in the nascent phase, the use of human capital investments (especially formal education) as a source of skills declines, thus creating a need to acquire more entrepreneurship-specific investments. In addition to acquiring skills from human capital investments, entrepreneurs learn skills from people in their social networks and self-taught skills which are used differently across the different entrepreneurship phases.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The findings indicate that the human capital investments are dynamic and change over time as the entrepreneurship phases unfold. Because there are different sources of skills for each entrepreneurship phase, entrepreneurs need to be treated according to their phases.</p>

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