Diaspora Networks in International Business

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Concept of Diaspora from the Perspective of International Business and Economy.- PART 1:  An Overview to Diaspora Networks in International Business.- Chapter 2: Diaspora and international business in the homeland: from impact of remittances to determinants of entrepreneurship and research agenda.- Chapter 3: Learning in various types of New Ventures - the role of "incoming" entrepreneurs.- Chapter 4: Leveraging the Caribbean Diaspora for Development: The role of network effects.- Chapter 5: A Taste of Home: The Nostalgia Trade and Migrant Economic Transnationalism.- PART 2: Positive and Negative Economic Activities in Diaspora Networks.- Chapter 6: Transnational investments of the Tunisian diaspora: Trajectories, skills accumulation and constraints.- Chapter 7: Transnational Entrepreneurship in a post-conflict society: Perspectives from Sri Lanka.- Chapter 8: A Portrait of the Current Portuguese Wave of Qualified Emigrants.- Chapter 9: Four Lithuanianemigration waves: comparison analysis of the main host countries.- Chapter 10: Criminality, smuggling, counterfeit and trafficking - A review of different types of criminal activities in diaspora networks.- PART 3: Diaspora and Socio-cultural Influences on Business.- Chapter 11: Shaking the Ethnic Minority Box: Conceptualizing the Impact of Context and Social Capital on the Entrepreneurial Activity of Minorities.- Chapter 12: Social Capital, Diaspora and Post Internationalization: A Developing Economy Case.- Chapter 13: Life-satisfaction of entrepreneurs in the diaspora: Embedded in transnational networks and international business.- Chapter 14: Socialising to Entrepreneurship: Issues in Diaspora Entrepreneurship and Multiculturalism in the UK.- Chapter 15: The role of linguistic resources in the institutional organization of the Armenian diaspora in Finland.- PART 4: Diaspora entrepreneurship and international business.- Chapter 16: Leadership Concepts for Diaspora Entrepreneurship

Dr. Maria Elo holds a PhD in economics from Åbo Akademi University, Finland. She is a Distinguished Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship at the School of Economics, Shanghai University, and at the Belt & Road Institute of International Business. She has worked as a consultant for various institutions and businesses; as an international entrepreneur, as a visiting assistant professor of international business at George Washington University, USA; as a professor of international management at FHDW, Germany; as a postdoctoral researcher at Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland; and as a Migration Fellow at the Institute of Migration, Finland. She is a visiting professor at Católica Porto Business School in Portugal and has lectured in the USA, China, Sweden, Denmark, Greece, Belgium, Germany and Kazakhstan. She is the founder of the Diaspora Networks in International Business and Synergia platforms and the co-founder of the Diaspora Business and Migration and Diaspora Entrepreneurship Conferences and the Finnish-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce. She has acted as a board member of The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU). 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. Her work is presented in various conferences and published in books, such as Diaspora Business co-edited with Liesl Riddle, Global Mobility of Highly Skilled People, Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Self-initiated Expatriation co-edited with Driss Habti and journals, such as Industrial Marketing Management,