Comparative Causal Mapping
Mauri Laukkanen is Professor emeritus of the University of Eastern Finland, Department of Business, Kuopio Campus. He received his PhD (DBA) at the Helsinki School of Economics in 1989. He served at the HSE (now Aalto University Business School) and the Universities of Vaasa and Jyvaskyla before UEF, where he helped found and headed the present Department of Business in 1995-2002. His research interests include entrepreneurship in local economic development, organizational cognition and cognitive mapping methods using CMAP3 software.
Mingde Wang is a Marie Curie Fellow in the PRIMO INT Network funded by the European Commission, and a doctoral student at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He received his master’s degree in International Relations from Leiden University, and was a lecturer of East Asian relations in the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research focuses on international politics and political psychology.