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Returnee Managers and Enterprise Innovation Performance—Based on the Corporate Risk-Taking
College of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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Abstract
This paper uses the data of 224 Chinese listed companies from 2007 to 2017 to study the relationship between returnee managers, risk-taking and corporate innovation performance. The research results show that the returnee managers are significantly positively correlated with the innovation performance of the enterprise; the returnee managers are positively related to the enterprise risk-taking; the risk-taking is the mediator of the returnee managers and the innovation performance of the enterprises.
KeywordsReturnee ManagersCorporate Risk-TakingInnovation Performance
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