China has undergone enormous economic changes in the past 30 years and now faces important decisions as it considers how best to sustain this unprecedented level of growth. China’s population is aging rapidly and the 225 million migrant workers who have fueled China’s economic miracle for...

For the past 10 years, since joining the World Trade Organization, China's global investment has increased 60-fold. Yet this increasingly emerged international business phenomenon has been under-studied. This paper examines the strategies of Chinese companies going global. It initially proposes...

Recent research on returning Chinese students has focused on their role as an alternative solution to their home country's mandate to build technological capacity. This study shows the depth of the ‘brain circulation' that is underway and the fact that overseas students are not only serving...

For some fortunate developing countries, the international flow of their human talent in the recent decade has been more of a 'reverse brain drain' than the terrible brain drain. South Korea (before it joined the OECD), Taiwan, Hong Kong, and India have all seen a significant 'brain gain.' And...

We analyze trade-offs in the organization of public safety networks when network assets are distributed across districts and a district values network assets in its own and other districts. Comparing centralized, decentralized, and mixed organization forms, we capture two critical properties:...

Many software firms offer a fully functional version of their products free of charge, for a limited trial time, to ease consumers’ uncertainty about the functionalities of their products and to help the diffusion of their new software. This paper examines the tradeoff between the effects of...

Our previous research had documented that 52% of Silicon Valley's startups were founded by immigrants; that immigrants were contributing to 25% of WIPO PCT applications filed from the U.S.; the backlog of skilled immigrants waiting for permanent resident visas had increased to over 1 million...