题　目：Strategic Newwork Behavior of Elite Financiers

嘉　宾：David Meyer 高级讲师 Washington University in St. Louis

主持人：幸婧 副教授 上海交通大学安泰经济与管理学院

时　间：2024年10月23日（周三）13:30-15:00

地　点：上海交通大学 徐汇校区安泰楼A403室

内容简介:

Interviews with experienced financiers in global financial centers reveal their strategic network behavior which they employ to access social capital. This enhances their performance. Referrals were used to acquire interviewees. This methodology provided access to top financiers in the financial centers of London, Zurich, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, and Mumbai. Digitally recorded interviews focused on financiers’ network behavior in corporate and investment banking, hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, fund management, real estate investment, insurance, and private banking. Extensive quotes are mechanisms to explain how financiers behave. Social network theory supplies the lens to interpret that behavior. Financiers face a dilemma. They need sophisticated knowledge to perform their jobs but accessing that knowledge demands extensive time. This detracts from their performance. Their networks help resolve that dilemma. Financiers use face-to-face interactions in formal and informal meetings to acquire knowledge resources and build relationships. Alumni ties and organizational memberships constitute components of current networks, but financiers disagree about their usefulness. They devise sophisticated network strategies to initiate a contact. Non-face-to-face and face-to-face mechanisms help build and maintain relationships. In every financial center and sector, trust is the foundation of relationships. Financiers incorporate advances in telecommunications, changes in the workplace, and reconsideration of approaches to long-distance travel into their network behavior. The interviewees play important roles in their respective sectors; therefore, the results reveal the ‘best practices’ of financiers.

演讲人简介：

David R. Meyer is Senior Lecturer in Management, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He is an Advisor of Our Hong Kong Foundation, one of Hong Kong’s largest think tanks. He also serves as a Panel Member of the Standing Review Board of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Meyer’s publications include six books and monographs and over 66 articles and book chapters. His book, The Networked Financier (Oxford University Press, 2023), draws on a unique database of digitally recorded interviews with leading global financiers in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Mumbai, London, Zurich, and New York. His current book project deals with the contemporary political economy of Hong Kong as the leading finance-corporate centre of Asia Pacific. He gives invited lectures at universities and research institutes in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China. In addition, he presents talks to business groups in the United States, Hong Kong, Singapore, and China. His op-eds appear in the South China Morning Post and China Daily. Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His first academic position was at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and, then he joined the faculty of Brown University where he continues as an Emeritus Professor of Sociology & Urban Studies.

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