The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic is an external shock that has disrupted the foundations of everyday life. For cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, the impact is even more decisive as it confronts their core values and jeopardises their identities, ways of working and the lifestyles they cherish. Cosmopolitans are individuals who identify themselves as citizens of the world and voluntarily move from country to country in pursuit of self-fulfilment in both life and work. Cosmopolitan entrepreneurs are future-oriented and open to the world and the opportunities it may provide. Beyond securing, maintaining and improving their professional and/or economic positions, their mobility is an elementary part of the cosmopolitan life itself, something they find attractive, interesting and stimulating. Thus, a cosmopolitan entrepreneur’s business is often non-location-bound to enable continued mobility. With our interview-based research, we shed light on how COVID-19 has changed the lives of Finnish-born cosmopolitan entrepreneurs, discussing what they feel about the changes and how they see their future.

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当所有大门关闭时：COVID-19 对国际企业家的影响

COVID-19 大流行的出现是一种外部冲击，它破坏了日常生活的基础。对于国际化的企业家来说，这种影响更具决定性，因为它直面他们的核心价值观，危及他们的身份、工作方式和他们所珍视的生活方式。世界主义者是那些将自己视为世界公民并自愿从一个国家搬到另一个国家以在生活和工作中追求自我实现的个人。世界性企业家面向未来，对世界及其可能提供的机会持开放态度。除了确保、维持和提高他们的专业和/或经济地位之外，他们的流动性是国际化生活本身的基本组成部分，是他们觉得有吸引力、有趣和刺激的东西。因此，国际化企业家的业务通常不受地点限制，以实现持续的流动性。通过基于访谈的研究，我们阐明了 COVID-19 如何改变了芬兰出生的国际化企业家的生活，讨论了他们对这些变化的看法以及他们对未来的看法。