Robots do not get the coronavirus: The COVID-19 pandemic and the international division of labor

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
• 署名单位: University of Groningen; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Antwerp
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2506
• DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00410-9
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1215-1224
• 关键词: covid-19; RISK; Global value chains; labor markets

摘要

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.