This paper explores the productivity differential between return migrants (“Sea Turtles”) and non-migrants through a case study of China’s venture capital (VC) industry. I find that even after correcting for selection bias, return venture capitalists are less productive than comparable non-migrants in targeting promising projects and/or providing value-added services. Given that the VC industry...

Both intellectual capital (IC) and knowledge management (KM) have been recognised as significant resources, when properly managed should enhance competitiveness, sustainability and performance. IC comprises the human, organisational and relational capital or resources. KM is about the ‘flow of knowledge’ from individual learning to organisational learning through KM processes to enhance organis...

abstract the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between capital stock and increasing the productivity of labor and total factor productivity (tfp) in industrial groups of khorasan razavi province from 2003 to 2007. in order to this first, the available literature in this area and the importance of productivity was reviewed, also the history of productivity in asia and the ...

This paper investigates venture capitalists' monitoring of managerial behaviour by examining their impact on CEO pay-performance sensitivity across various controlling structures in Chinese firms. We find that the effectiveness of venture capitalists' monitoring depends on different types of agency conflict. In particular, we find that venture capital (VC) monitoring is hampered in firms that e...

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) have an important impact on the development of new economy but SMEs have a need for venture capital (VC) and initial public offerings (IPOs) in order to grow. Therefore, It is very important to know how owners, managers and employees in the SMEs perceive the VC and IPOs in Turkey. A questionnaire is developed to understand these types of perceptions via ...

Considering necessity of recognizing the knowledge-based economy and achieving its foundations in Iran, the main issue of this research is to clarify the relationship between intellectual capital and Refined EVA in insurance companies which are member of Tehran Stock Exchange. In this research, the Refined EVA index was used to evaluate and measure the intellectual capital of the Palick model a...