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Lorna Wright

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Lorna Wright
Export Development Canada Professorship in International Business, Schulich School of Business, York University
Director, Centre for Global Enterprise, Schulich School of Business, York University
E-mail: lwright@schulich.yorku.ca

Lorna Wright has been active in cross-cultural and diversity consulting for over 30 years, offering training in cross-cultural and multicultural management and negotiations, as well as organizational development and strategy formulation. She has conducted seminars, given guest lectures and conference presentations around the world. She has published a number of case studies and articles on e-business, SME training strategies, women entrepreneurship, cultural competence, among others, and co-authored a book on International Management Behavior: Putting Policy into Practice (1992). She was the founding director (1992-2000) of the Centre for Canada-Asia Business Relations at Queen's University. She was also co-founder (1997) of the Asian Business Consortium, which included Queen’s University, York University, the University of Toronto and Ivey School of Business.

Keywords: Cross-cultural management; international negotiations; strategic alliances; conditions for SME business success internationally; women-owned SMEs in the digital economy; Pacific Basin region; Southeast Asia; East Asia

Upcoming Events

Feb
20
Wed
10:00 am Do Markets Matter in the War Aga... @ Room S123, Schulich School of Business
Do Markets Matter in the War Aga... @ Room S123, Schulich School of Business
Feb 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
In this paper, we theorize about the role of markets in the war on terror. We contend that as markets straddle the state and society, [...]
Feb
27
Wed
12:30 pm Law, Labour, Race & Migration @ Room 1003, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School
Law, Labour, Race & Migration @ Room 1003, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School
Feb 27 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Law, Labour, Race & Migration @ Room 1003, Ignat Kaneff Building, Osgoode Hall Law School
Legal History Panel Discussion Speakers: Renisa Mawani (University of British Columbia) Radhika Mongia (York University) Moderator: Philip Girard (Osgoode Hall Law School) Light lunch will [...]
3:00 pm Being a Scholar-Practitioner of ... @ Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Being a Scholar-Practitioner of ... @ Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower
Feb 27 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Being a Scholar-Practitioner of South Asian Meditation Traditions @ Room 626, Sixth Floor, Kaneff Tower
  In this talk, three Scholar-Practitioners of Indic traditions of meditation will talk about their meditation practice as a simultaneous object of research, followed by [...]
Mar
1
Fri
2:00 pm KORE Event | Korean-Canadian Stu... @ Room 2101, Second Floor, Vari Hall
KORE Event | Korean-Canadian Stu... @ Room 2101, Second Floor, Vari Hall
Mar 1 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
KORE Event | Korean-Canadian Studies in a Comparative Context: Local and Global Connections @ Room 2101, Second Floor, Vari Hall
Work on the Korean diaspora and migration in Canada goes back roughly 30 years and recent scholarship on Korean migrants in Canada signals the emergence [...]
Mar
5
Tue
11:30 am Reflections on the Contemporary ... @ Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes
Reflections on the Contemporary ... @ Room 280A, Second Floor, York Lanes
Mar 5 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
This symposium aims to critically explore the contemporary political situation in India, in terms of political, economic and social rights of the citizens. The Global [...]
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