One of the authors of a recent academic study tells how the surprising findings could help U.S. entrepreneurs doing business abroad
Business networks made up of homogenous members benefit a startup in the beginning, but may actually hinder it later on. That's just one of the findings in Bat Batjargal's research on how entrepreneurs network around the world. Batjargal, 41, is a research associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, and an assistant professor at Beijing University, who has been studying cross-cultural networks for about a decade.
Batjargal's study, Emotional Men Versus Rational Women: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurship in China and Russia, co-authored by Michael Hitt of Texas A&M, Jean-Luc Arregle of EDHEC business school in France, and Anne Tsui of Arizona State, draws on data from 700 male and female entrepreneurs from China, Russia, France, and the U.S. and attempts to discover some of the hidden intricacies of how men and women network differently, while comparing behaviors in emerging economies with those in more developed nations.
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