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Professor, International Business
Dr. Elie Virgile Chrysostome is a Professor of International Business at the Ivey Business School in Canada. He is also an Extraordinary Professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS), University of Pretoria (South Africa). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Comparative International Management (JCIM). He has previously served as Chair of the International Business Division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) and is the current Chair of the Academy of International Business Africa (AIB Africa) Taskforce. He is the founder and former Director of the CEDIMES Institute USA.
Dr. Chrysostome has led Ivey Case Teaching Workshops in West Africa, including in Benin, Senegal, and Ivory Coast. He is also a Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London (UK). He has more than 25 years of teaching experience across institutions in North America, including Université Laval and the University of Moncton in Canada, as well as the State University of New York (USA). He was tenured at both the University of Moncton and the State University of New York. He has served as Conference Chair of the International Conference of the CEDIMES Institute USA. He was a visiting scholar at HEC Montréal (Canada) and an invited scholar at leading business schools, including Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA), Haute École de Gestion de Fribourg (Switzerland), Université Laval (Canada), Université Paris-Dauphine (France), Wroclaw University of Economics (Poland), University of Johannesburg (South Africa), and Alfred Nobel University (Ukraine). He has served as an external examiner on PhD committees for 14 graduate students across institutions in North America, Australia, and Africa.
His research interests include international entrepreneurship, particularly immigrant and transnational diaspora entrepreneurship, small business internationalization, foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets, multinational enterprises’ responses to geopolitical tensions, international joint ventures (IJVs), and capacity building in developing countries. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 publications, including refereed journal articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in prominent journals, including Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of International Business Policy, Thunderbird International Business Review, AIB Insights, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Competitiveness, Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and Journal of African Business. He is also the author of three books. His most recent edited volume is Capacity Building in Emerging and Developing Countries: From a Mindset Transformation to Entrepreneurship and Diaspora Involvement (2019). He also co-edited Building Businesses in Emerging and Developing Countries: Challenges and Opportunities (2014). He holds a PhD in Administrative Sciences with a specialization in International Strategic Management from Université Laval (Canada).