Oversea Background Executive , Risk-Taking and Corporate Performance

Overseas background executives are becoming more and more important to enterprises. By analyzing the data of A-share listed companies in China from 2011 to 2017, this paper finds that the existence of overseas background executives is conducive to the improvement of corporate performance. And senior managers with overseas working experience and core managers with overseas experience in enterprises can play a more important role. At the same time, the study shows that risk-taking plays a mediating role in the impact of overseas executives on corporate performance. And only when the external institutional environment is good, can overseas executives play their role.


Introduction
According to the theory of human capital, the talent has always been an important motivation for social and economic development.From the perspective of the micro-subjects involved in the economy, there may be many external factors in the establishment of enterprises, but if enterprises seek for a long-term development, talents will be the key to their strategic execution.The training of senior managers is the most crucial factor for the establishment of the talent echelon.Because of their knowledge, ability, capital and related resources, senior managers have always served as the apex group in the human capital pyramid, providing intellectual support and resource for the development of micro-enterprises, thus continuously promoting the company's various business activities.Ultimately their value reflected in the company's performance and personal Y. L. Guo achievement.
In the 1990s, due to the turbulence of domestic economy, China experienced a large-scale overseas immigration.The serious brain drain caused an insignificant impact on China's macroeconomic and micro-subjects.However, since the beginning of the new century, benefiting from the stable and rapid development of economy and the targeted policies of the talents such as "talent subsidies", "welfare housing" and "thousand people plan", China has entered the new stage in the return of overseas talents.LinkedIn 2018 "China Returnees Talents Report" shows that from 2011 to 2017, the return of overseas talents has been increasing year by year, and the number of mature talents has increased.Studying and working abroad before returning to China for further development has become a career plan for more and more oversea talents.
The return of overseas talents has played an important role in the basic science, business management and economic development in China.With the continuous deepening of the global internationalization process, especially the knowledge reserves, network of contacts and work experience accumulated by senior management not only weigh more and more on the formulating of enterprise development strategy and taking reasonable risk, but also drive the smooth running of projects and improve the efficiency of organizational processes.The overseas experience of executives can be regarded as a special endowment, and overseas talents become corporate executives, even as CEOs or CFOs, which have greatly changed the characteristics of the executive team's personnel composition and are important for improving operational efficiency.
Although the return of overseas talents can bring special resources and endowments to the development of all levels of the Chinese economy, due to the current institutional characteristics of China, differentiated market systems and unbalanced regional economic conditions, overseas background executives may not be able to achieve the company's initial expectations.Senior executives with overseas backgrounds may require a certain amount of time to adjust and adapt in the new stage of facing cultural situations and institutional situations that are different from overseas experiences.However, with the continuous development of Chinese economy and the improvement of the institutional environment, the resource endowment brought by overseas executives is bound to be more able to flourish and develop in this red and magnificent land!

Research on Overseas Talents and Company Management
The specific duties of the senior management team include organizing and coordinating the operation and development of the enterprise, formulating the enterprise development strategy and issuing key decisions, and controlling and adjusting the operation of the enterprise.Therefore, the company's senior management team has strong decision-making ability.The demographic characteristics of senior management will directly affect the formulation of corporate stra-Y.L. Guo tegic decisions that will directly affect corporate performance [1].The "high-level echelon theory" shows that the different experience characteristics of management have an important impact on the business investment and strategic choice of the enterprise [2].
The influence of executives with overseas background on business operations is far-reaching.The presence of executives with overseas backgrounds can lead to more meaningful discussions in the decision-making environment, thus choosing the strategy of optimal development.The overseas experience of executives is conducive to the international diversification of enterprises, and increasing the proportion of executives with overseas backgrounds helps to increase the export of small-sized technology companies [3].The existence of overseas executives is conducive to improving the level of corporate social responsibility commitment [4].Returnee executives improve investment efficiency in enterprises, which is one of the ways in the group promotes corporate performance [5].The returnees have a positive impact on corporate performance [6].The reason for the outstanding performance of overseas executives is attributed to the knowledge base and network of contacts added by overseas experience [7].
Of course, quickly adapting to the domestic political economy and corporate environment is a necessary condition for effectively exerting the role of returning senior manager: the combined influence of the overseas experience and the local maladjustment of returnees determine its impact on business operations [8].Otherwise, it may even be considered that those executives have great ambition but little talent [9].

Research on Risk-Taking
The essence of risk is the uncertainty of the expected result, which means that the risk represents both "opportunity" and "danger".The traditional theory of finance emphasizes the coexistence of risks and benefits, that is, it is expected to gain profit on investment while taking risks.The risk-taking of an enterprise is defined as the willingness and inclination of the company to pay for the proceeds [10].The risk is something that must be undertaken and faced in business operations [11].
Generally speaking, the mainstream literature holds that the risk-taking of enterprises is conducive to optimizing the operation and development of enterprises, and thus achieving the improvement of corporate value.Raising the level of risk-taking can improve the company's growth ability, which in turn will help the company achieve its long-term success [12] with the level of risk-taking increasing, companies will mention their R&D investment, which will enhance their innovation capabilities [13].At the same time, the risk-taking of enterprises is conducive to optimizing the investment decisions of enterprises and maximizing the benefits of resources [14].
Of course, the risk-taking of the company also needs to be maintained at a Y. L. Guo reasonable level.Any slight inadvertent business behavior will cause the company to fall into the mud and even bring a bad chain reaction to the capital market and the macro economy.The relationship between risk-taking and income of cross-border enterprises is significantly negative; enterprises will maintain a higher risk exposure during the recession, which will further deteriorate its operation [15].Meanwhile, only modest risk exposure can boost the development of the company [16].

Hypothesis
Under economic globalization, the development of enterprises is inseparable from the talents with a global vision.The high-level management members with overseas backgrounds, their unique talents for studying and working abroad, make it easier to analyze the business logic in the globalization and make more reasonable business decisions [17].Regardless of the expansion of overseas markets, the investment of enterprise innovation, the rationalization of investment efficiency or the strengthening of corporate governance, the executives with oversea background have the optimization effect on local enterprises.At the same time, according to the high-level echelon theory, the unique resources of overseas background and the understanding of the multicultural environment can better grasp opportunities and improve the investment performance of enterprises.
H1a: Under the same conditions, returnees can improve the performance of the company.
H1b: Under the same conditions, the greater the number of returnees, the higher the performance of the company.
H1c: Under the same conditions, the higher the proportion of returnees, the higher the performance of the company.
The overseas experience of executives includes two experiences of studying abroad or serving abroad.Both experiences have different effects, and play different role in the service stage of executives.Compared with the experience of overseas study, work experience enables returnees to better understand the local market and industry and improve their perception of the business model of the industry, which is more practical for the company performance transferability than overseas study experience.
Different job assignments give different roles to the corresponding managers.
The CEO and CFO are two important executives of the company.The former is mainly responsible for the important business decisions of the company.The latter is mainly responsible for the financial decision-making and the quality of accounting information.The above two positions are more central to the influence of other executives on corporate decision-making [18].If overseas executives are in the core positions of the management group, they can play their role more than other positions.Therefore, the following assumptions are made: H1d: Under the same conditions, the work experience of senior executives Y.L. Guo more likely improve the performance of the company compared with the overseas study experience.
H1e: Under the same conditions, returnees as core positions can more likely improve their performance compared with overseas executives who hold non-core positions.
Matching revenue and risk is an important cornerstone of corporate finance theory.As mentioned above, risk-taking can effectively promote technological innovation of enterprises, improve the efficiency of enterprise investment, optimize the allocation of internal resources, and achieve performance improvement.The improvement of the level of enterprise risk-taking can achieve the promotion of economic development from a macro perspective, and also improve the performance management of enterprises from a micro perspective.Therefore, the following assumptions are made: H2a: Under the same conditions, the improvement of corporate risk taking can enhance the company's corporate performance.
The individualistic values of corporate executives have a significant positive impact on corporate risk taking.Those executives, who grow up under the Chinese culture of the collectivism, always seek a more moderate and conservative decision-making model to maximize the group profits, but the influence of foreign cultures experienced by senior executives can enhance their risk-taking consciousness.Therefore, compared with the local growth executives, the returnees accept the individualistic culture, advocating hard work and progress, which perform a higher risk preference of decision.The experience of studying or serving abroad also makes them more capable and willing to accept challenges [19].Therefore, the following assumptions are made: H3a: Under the same conditions, returnees can improve the risk-taking level of the company.
H3b: Under the same conditions, the greater the number of returnees, the higher the risk-taking level of the company.H3c: Under the same conditions, the higher the proportion of returnees, the higher the risk-taking level of the company.
Returnees who study and work in completely different environments have to constantly overcome cultural shocks, and face the pressures and challenges of life, emotions, and social interaction.This experience has partly fostered the resilience of returnees to enable them to respond to and control risks with a calm and calm mentality and make responsible decisions.They are mainly employed in developed economies, who not only have advantages in terms of professional knowledge and management concepts compared to domestic local executives, but also have international social resources and their risk-taking ability may be stronger.Risk taking puts forward higher requirements for managers' capabilities of risk control and resource integration.Managers need to effectively control the balance between risks and benefits to avoid making enterprises into trouble.So returnees from different positions will play different roles in risk taking.To control overall risk of the company, the attitude of risk taking of the returnees as Y. L. Guo core positions may be contrary to the rest of the returnees [20].Therefore, the following assumptions are made: H3d: Under the same conditions, the returnees who experience senior management with overseas study experience can improve the risk-taking level of the company.
H3e: Under the same conditions, returnees as core positions can enhance the risk-taking level of enterprises compared with overseas executives and non-core positions.
In summary, the broad vision, knowledge precipitation, management experience and personal awareness which are formed by overseas executives when learning and working abroad make them more willing and able to take on business risks.Simultaneously, the mainstream literature recognizes that the risk-taking of enterprises has a positive effect on the micro-subjects of enterprises.Therefore, it is inferred that risk-based commitment is one of the important intermediary paths in the way that executives with overseas background improve corporate performance.
H4a: Risk-taking plays a full intermediary role in the transmitting process of company performance by returnees with overseas employment experience.
H4b: Risk-taking plays a part in mediating transmitting process of company performance to overseas returnees with overseas study experience.
H4d: Risk-taking can not play a mediating role in the transmitting process on company performance by oversea returnees as core positions H4e: Risk-taking plays a full intermediary role in the transmitting process of company performance by oversea retunes as non-core positions.
This paper will verify the above hypothesis with the panel OLS regression method.The intermediary mechanism of risk-taking is judged by significance of the crossover item and the Soble test.

Variable Selection
The variables are selected as shown in Table 1, where tbc is the explanatory variable, the executives' overseas background situation category variables are explanatory variables, the risk taking is the intermediary variable, and the rest are the control variables.

Descriptive Statistics
As can be seen from Table 2, from the perspective of the operation of listed companies in China, there is a relatively large gap between the companies on operating performance, growth capacity, and operational capability liabilities.At the same time, there are different strategic choices in the company's management and governance structure: For the appointment of overseas background executives, one of those companies appoint 11 overseas background executives, while many companies still do not appoint overseas backgrounds as executive.
However, overseas executives may play an important role in the gap between the company's operations.

Model Equation
In order to confirm the above hypothesis and test the mediation mechanism, panel regression analysis will be carried out using the following models.
To examine the impact of overseas background characteristics on corporate performance: Model:

Regression Analysis
As shown in As shown in Table 3: Firstly, the existence of executives with overseas background can significantly positively affect the level of risk-taking of enterprises, while the increase in the proportion and number of those executives can slightly promote the level of risk-taking of enterprises.Secondly, among the executives with different overseas experience, executives with oversea work experience have a significant positive impact on corporate risk-taking.The impact of executives with overseas study on corporate risk taking is only slightly significant.Finally, statistically, executives who hold core or non-core positions have a positive and significant role in the risk-taking of enterprises.H3a and H3b are assumed to be strictly verified.
According to the above regression conclusions (Table 4 1) Executives with overseas experience and employment have a full mediating effect on the positive impact of risk taking on corporate performance; 2) Executives with oversea experience, returning executives as non-core position and increase in the number of overseas executives affect corporate performance partly through risk taking; 3) Executives with overseas study and overseas employment and core executives did not pass the sobel test (Table 6).
Since Chinese reforming and opening, it has always adhered to the development of a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics, while private enterprises and state-owned enterprises have always been the two major players in the market.Different internal attributes of an enterprise may have corresponding differences in the role of a particular talent or strategy.Therefore, the sample is divided into state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises Y. L. Guo

Impact of Marketization
Grouped according to the median of the 2016 China Marketization Index, provinces with a median index above or equal to the marketization index are high-marketization levels, and provinces below the median index of the market index are included in the low-marketization level group.It can be seen from Tables 7-9 that after the grouping, in the high-market group, the presence of overseas background executives, the core and non-core positions of overseas significance, core executives with overseas background can also play a positive role in corporate risk taking, which also confirms that returning executives as the core position can be more effective.On the other hand, the low-market group is basically at a non-significant level, and may reflect as inhibition of risk-taking in the coefficient.
From the regression results, in the better market environment, all kinds of overseas background executives can positively influence the performance of the enterprise at least at the level of 10%.In the poor market environment, the coefficient is negative, and the statistics show that it is not significant, indicating that the influence of overseas background executives on company performance in such an environment is not positive and not obvious.
Meanwhile, as analyzed in the previous section, according to the three-step test of the Mediating Effects, in the high market groups, overseas background executives, executives with overseas work experience, executives with overseas education experience, and overseas background executives with core positions are all significantly impact on company performance through risk taking, and have become part of the intermediary role.

Impact of External Legalization
Similar to the external marketization of the region in which the enterprise is located, the degree of external legalization of the location affects the contribution of overseas background executives to the performance of the enterprise, and affects the role path at the same time.
As shown in Tables 10-12, overseas background executives have a significant impact on company performance under the conditions of improved external legal system.The impact of overseas background executives who shoulder non-core positions is relatively weak on corporate performance, which is significant at the 10% level.While in enterprises located in areas with low legalizations, overseas background executives cannot significantly improve company performance.
At the same time, through further regression analysis, in sub-sample with the better legal system, risk-taking can serve as an intermediary mechanism for overseas background executives to influence on company performance.This mechanism of influence is evident in the overseas background management staff who have held core positions in the company, those who have overseas study experience and those who have overseas work experience.

The Impact of External Political Environment
Similarly, the external political environment also has an impact on the effect of overseas background executives on corporate performance, and thus we conduct group regression analysis on the external political environment.

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The results are shown in Tables 13-15.Only when the external political environment is well, overseas background executives can exert a positive impact on company performance significantly.In an environment where the external political environment is poor, only executives with both overseas study and employment experience can have a positive impact on performance significantly.
Further intermediate test results show that overseas background executives can influence the company's performance through the risk-taking mechanism.
The main players effecting on these mechanisms are overseas background executives with work experience.

Conclusions
Based on the analysis of the data of China's A-share listed companies in 2011-2017, the main conclusions are as follows: First, overseas background executives have a significant positive impact on company performance.Among them, executives with overseas work experience have the most positive impact on company performance, while executives with overseas study experience have less significant impact on corporate performance.And returning from overseas, senior executives in core positions have a more positive impact on company performance, and executives who are in non-core positions have a not significantly positive impact on company performance.
Second, overseas background executives can use the Risk-taking, a Mediated Mechanism, to effect company performance.The specific performance is that executives with overseas employment experience have a complete mediating effect on corporate performance, while executives with overseas studying experience, and oversea background executives as non-core positions are made through the risk-taking intermediary mechanism for company performance.

Policy Advice
In summary, three policy recommendations are proposed: First, the government and enterprises should strengthen the introduction of talents with overseas experience, and effectively exert their knowledge and resource advantages; those talents can promote the development of the economy and enterprises.Secondly, when introducing returnees as senior executives, enterprises should pertinently select those with overseas work experience.Their industry experience accumulated abroad plays a better role in corporate performance than executives only with overseas learning experience.
Furthermore, when appointing overseas executives, enterprises should boldly use overseas background talents as core positions, which will provide stronger support for enterprise development.
Finally, the government should further promote the marketization process, improve the law and further optimize the political and business environment, and provide suitable environment for the returnees to exert their talents.

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To examine the impact of risk-taking on Corporate Performance:To examine the impact of overseas background characteristics on risk-taking: OVERRSEAS represents the overseas background characteristics of the corresponding formula; Controls represents control variables; Intersections represent the crossover term of the corresponding formula.

Finally, through the
group test of the external market environment, the legal environment, and the political and business environment, we find that the external system has an impact on the effects and mechanisms of overseas background executives on corporate performance.The regression conclusion almost uniformly indicates that only in the environment of good market environment, better legal environment, and good relationship between government and business, can overseas background executives effectively influence the company's performance, and only in such environment can risk-taking become the Inter-Y.L. Guo mediary Mechanism.

3.1. Source of Data and Samples
In order to eliminate the interference of extreme values on the empirical results, we use Wimorize to process the continuous variables with values other than the 1% and 99% quantiles.A total of 14418 observation samples from 2011-2017 were obtained.
CSMAR database is the largest and most accurate financial and economic database in China.Its data consists of stock, fund, bond, financial derivatives, listed companies, economy, industry and high frequency data.And it also provides personalized data.ta; 2) Excluding ST and *ST enterprises; 3) Excluding companies whose ROA is not three-years continuous; 4) Exclude samples with missing or outliers from other data.DOI: 10.4236/me.2018.912139Y. L. Guo

Table 2
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Table 15 .
Regression table of high external political situation.