Strathclyde International Business Unit (SIBU) and the Department of Management are hosting a seminar by Professor Klaus Meyer from the University of Bath's School of Management on March 21.
Professor Meyer's seminar is entitled, "Born Global Resource Integrators: A Study of High Tech Entrepreneurs", and will be held in Strathclyde Business School's Cathedral Street Building at 1.15pm.
The lecture is based on four in-depth case studies of British start-ups and looks at why high tech entrepreneurs build their business around globally dispersed resources, and how they implement such business models. Findings suggest that this form of entrepreneurship is pursued, potentially successfully, by entrepreneurial teams that have very high degrees of industry and international experience, and a global vision of the value chains and markets in which they are operating.
Professor Meyer is Professor of Strategy and International Business at the School of Management, Bath, and an adjunct professor at Copenhagen Business School.
His current research focuses on strategies of multinational enterprises in emerging economies, in particular the strategies used by investors to adapt to the specific conditions prevailing in each host context. He has thus investigated foreign investor's choice of entry mode and foreign acquisitions in transition economies. His research also extends to the impact of foreign investors on the economic transition and development of the host economies. Another stream of research focuses on the global strategies that may bring multinational enterprises, including in particular those originating from emerging economies.