Time: 13:00-15:00 (UK Time), Wednesday, 9 June 2021
Presenter: Professor Elie Chrysostome, State University of New York - Plattsburgh
Chair: Professor Victor Murinde, SOAS University of London
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Abstract
Immigrant entrepreneurs are more likely to kick-start international activities given their international experience. Diaspora entrepreneur are potential business investors in their homeland. Yet, very few empirical studies have explored the personal attributes of the diaspora and the relative importance of their personal attributes. Most of these studies tend to focus on the demographic and business characteristics of diaspora international entrepreneurs and side-step other entrepreneurial components such as the psychological dimensions. The purpose of this research is to reduce this gap. Hence, the paper focuses on entrepreneurial orientation, motivation and previous experience of diaspora international entrepreneurs. A survey was conducted with a sample of diaspora entrepreneurs settled in Canada and regression tests were performed to analyze the data. The new findings reveal that although some personal attributes of international entrepreneurs may apply to diaspora entrepreneurs, the profile of the diaspora international entrepreneurs is quite unique; this is not trivial and needs to be well documented.

Authors: Prof Elie Chrysostome; Prof Jean-Marie Nkongolo; Dr Antoine Dedewanou

Presenter

Dr Elie CHRYSOSTOME is Professor of International Business and Strategic Management at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh and Director of CEDIMES USA. He was the Chair of the Division of International Business of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC). He is a Research Associate at the Strategy & Society Chair of Management of HEC-Montreal (Canada) and at the Montreal Local-Global Research Group at Concordia University (Canada). He is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Global Finance, SOAS University of London (UK) and Advisor at The Cambridge Learning Gateway of the University of Cambridge (UK). He has held academic posts at Laval University and University of Moncton in Canada and has served as keynote speaker at several leading business schools including Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA), Ivey Business School (Canada), Haute Ecole de Gestion de Fribourg (Switzerland), HEC-Montreal (Canada), Laval University (Canada), University Paris-Dauphine (France), Wroclaw University of Economics (Poland) and Alfred Nobel University (Ukraine). He has  supervised, co-supervised or served as external examiner of many graduate student dissertations including PhD students from prestigious universities such as Ivey Business School, Concordia University and Laval University in Canada. He is author and co-author of more than 40 publications in top-rated academic journals. He holds a PhD in Administration Sciences from Laval University in Canada.