Globalizing research on global cities and international business

• 成果类型: Editorial Material
• 署名作者: Fan, C. Cindy
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-023-00670-7
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 28-36
• 关键词: Global cities; Location strategy; International business research agenda; Economic geography; United States; CHINA

摘要

Living up to the expectations of the JIBS Decade Award, Goerzen, Asmussen, and Nielsen's 2013 paper not only introduced the literature on global cities to the international business ( IB) community but continues to be generative. In their Retrospective and a Looking Forward paper 10 years later, the authors highlight megatrends about people, places and things, and new contexts and alternative perspectives, and they encourage further new ways of thinking about global cities and IB. This commentary expands upon their framework of three overlapping circles of global issues, global organizations, and global locations, by drawing especially from recent experiences in the U.S. and research in economic geography and allied fields. Facing global issues of climate change, human rights, health, housing, and the impacts of digital technologies on work, cities offer prospects of responding to these challenges, a context for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to consider. Against the backdrop of large-scale global migrations of unskilled, mostly contract, workers to global cities in developed economies, recruitment agencies and advocacy groups for migrants are global organizations as important as MNEs. Finally, the fluidity of physical boundaries, as illustrated by city-regions, world regions beyond traditional Western-centric perspectives, and intra-national variations, is key to analyzing global locations.