上海大学经济学院

海外学者论坛第139期，总第334期

讲座题目：Diasporic connectedness in international business and economy

主讲人：Prof. Maria Elo, University of Turku, and ÅboAkademi University, Finland

讲座时间：2018年11月9日上午9点30分

讲座地点：经济学院567会议室

讲座内容：

Chinese economy is a good example, it is not only vast inside the country, but also globally. This is largely due to the various roles and effects that the overseas Chinese, i.e. the global Chinese diaspora has had in connecting businesses, places and investments. Diaspora refers to people living in dispersion who maintain relations with their country of origin, for example, international migrants and their descendants who stay connected with their homeland. These connections may have various contents that have economic impacts. Global diasporas are shaping economic places, like the case of Silicon Valley indicates. Diasporans act as managers, investors and entrepreneurs in the international arena and interconnect economic actors. Diasporas may benefit both sending and receiving economies on multiple ways. They role as active citizens and human capital bring needed skills and "brain" to the new context, for numerous purposes: for improving the population pyramid and special demands, for intensifying bilateral economic relations, for fostering innovation and knowledge transfer, for boosting entrepreneurship, but also for internationalising firms. This "brain" is also referred to as talent and highly skilled migrants. In global economy, the circulation of this brain is a heated debated. The purpose of this session is to discuss these effects and their economic interconnectedness.

主讲人简介：

Maria Elo holds a PhD in Economics from ÅboAkademi University, Finland. She is a Distinguished Professor in International Business and Entrepreneurship at the School of Economics, Shanghai University. She has worked as a consultant for various institutions and businesses, and as a visiting professors and research fellows in international business at Universities in USA, Finland, Portugal, etc. Maria has lectured in the USA, China, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Belgium, Germany and Kazakhstan.

She is also an active reviewer and guest editor, an editorial board member of International Journal of Business and Globalisation and an editorial review board member of European Journal of International Management. Her research focuses on international business, internationalization processes, business networks, migration, diaspora networks, diaspora entrepreneurship, transnational entrepreneurship, intercultural competences, and transfer of values and knowledge. She has published in conferences and books, such as, Diaspora Business co-edited with Liesl Riddle, Global Mobility of Highly Skilled People co-edited with DrissHabti, and Diaspora Networks in International Business, co-edited with Indianna Minto-Coy, as well as in journals, such as Industrial Marketing Management, International Journal of Manufacturing Technology and Management, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Diaspora Studies, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, and Journal of International Management.