TY - JOUR
T1 - Robots do not get the coronavirus
T2 - The COVID-19 pandemic and the international division of labor
AU - Brakman, Steven
AU - Garretsen, Harry
AU - van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - We assess the expected long-run consequences of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and use these as a platform to argue that international business (IB) as a field should expand its research agenda to study the international division of labor. The worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the shift toward the de-globalization of capital, but it will also speed up the move to a stronger globalization of labor. This paradoxical, simultaneous occurrence of de-globalization and globalization offers rich opportunities for future IB research.
AB - We assess the expected long-run consequences of the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic and use these as a platform to argue that international business (IB) as a field should expand its research agenda to study the international division of labor. The worldwide response to the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the shift toward the de-globalization of capital, but it will also speed up the move to a stronger globalization of labor. This paradoxical, simultaneous occurrence of de-globalization and globalization offers rich opportunities for future IB research.
KW - COVID-19
KW - global value chains
KW - labor markets
KW - risk
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U2 - 10.1057/s41267-021-00410-9
DO - 10.1057/s41267-021-00410-9
M3 - Comment / Letter to the editor
AN - SCOPUS:85102674131
SN - 0047-2506
VL - 52
SP - 1215
EP - 1224
JO - Journal of International Business Studies
JF - Journal of International Business Studies
IS - 6
ER -
