What Drives Migrants Back to Set up Firms?Return-home Entrepreneurial Intention of Rural Migrant Workers in China  

作　　者：ZHU Huasheng CHEN Yawei ZHANG Hua LIU Zhangfei 

机构地区：[1]Beijing Key Laboratory of Environmental Remote Sensing and Digital Cities,Faculty of Geographical Science,Beijing Normal University,Beijing 100875,China [2]Jiangsu Provincial Urban&Rural Development Research Center,Nanjing 210036,China [3]College of Marxism,Fuyang Normal Univeristy,Fuyang 236037,China

出　　处：《Chinese Geographical Science》2023年第2期205-220,共16页中国地理科学（英文版）

基　　金：Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.42071152)。

摘　　要：The extant literature on international immigrants has discussed migrants’entrepreneurial activities in the context of Western countries but has paid little attention to return-home entrepreneurial intention(RHEI).Rural migrant workers(RMWs)in China,who used to promote rural development by remittances and were characterized by similarities with early international migrants,have gradually returned to their hometowns to initiate entrepreneurial activities.Based on the structured questionnaire conducted in 2015 and 2020in Anhui Province,China,this article combines the concept of mixed embeddedness with the idea of double-layered embeddedness and analyzes the impacts of the social,economic and institutional context in RMWs’hometowns and migration destinations on RMWs’RHEI by using binary logistic regression.The article shows that the social,economic,and institutional environments of RMWs’hometowns and migration destinations have effects on their RHEI.The embeddedness in the economic and informal institutional context in RMWs’RHEI is even more important than personal characteristics.Compared with migration destinations,RMWs’hometowns exert a more influential effect on their RHEI.However,that does not mean that the role of migration destinations can be undervalued.Actually,the better the social,economic,and institutional environments of migration destinations RMWs moved into is,the higher entrepreneurial intention they will have after returning to their hometowns.The article proposes a modified framework in combination of mixed embeddedness with double-layer embeddedness and proves that it is suitable for analyzing RMWs’RHEI.The framework has important implications for strengthening China’s RMWs to return home to start their own businesses.

关 键 词：return-home entrepreneurial intention(RHEI) rural migrant workers(RMWs) mixed embeddedness Anhui Province China 

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