Time: 13:00-15:00 (GMT), Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Presenter: Dr Orly Levy, SOAS University of London
Chair: Professor Victor Murinde, SOAS University of London
Online venue: Click here to join the seminar on Microsoft Teams (For any inquiry about how to join the online seminar, please contact Dr Meng Xie: xm1@soas.ac.uk)
Abstract
What is global cultural capital? How does it affect the person’s ability to “play the game” in the global economy? We explore the notion of global cultural capital and how it enables individuals to operate effectively in the global economy and to compete for resources, opportunities, and social positions. We identify its core components and explain how together they comprise the individual’s “stock” of global culture capital. We then investigate whether the “rules of the game” have changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic and how these changes may affect the value and viability of global cultural capital. We then present preliminary findings from a recent survey of self-initiated and organizational expatriates who reside in 12 countries and interrogate how they view the relative value of their own global cultural capital and their expectations regarding the global job market in a post-pandemic world.
Authors: Orly Levy and Sebastian Reiche
Presenter
Dr Orly Levy (PhD in sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) is Reader in International Management and Director of Research of the School of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London. She conducts research on multinational corporations and transnational networks, focusing on global mindset and cosmopolitan disposition, transnational social capital and cultural capital, power and politics in multinational corporations, and transcultural brokerage. Her research has been published in leading journals, including Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations, and Sloan Management Review.
Prof. B Sebastian Reiche (PhD in Management, University of Melbourne, Australia) is Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on the forms, prerequisites and consequences of global work, international HRM, global leadership and knowledge transfer. His research has appeared in a variety of outlets, including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Academy of Management Discoveries and Human Resource Management. He is also co-editor, with Guenter Stahl, Mark Mendenhall and Gary Oddou, of Readings and Cases in International Human Resource Management (6th edn, Routledge), and coeditor, with Helene Tenzer and Anne-Wil Harzing, of International Human Resource Management (5th edn, SAGE). He is Associate Editor of Human Resource Management Journal and regularly blogs on topics related to expatriation and global work (http://blog.iese.edu/expatriatus).