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

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 accelera...

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Autores principales: Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7976691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33758437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00410-9
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spelling pubmed-79766912021-03-19 Robots do not get the coronavirus: The COVID-19 pandemic and the international division of labor Brakman, Steven Garretsen, Harry van Witteloostuijn, Arjen J Int Bus Stud Commentary 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. Palgrave Macmillan UK 2021-03-19 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7976691/ /pubmed/33758437 http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41267-021-00410-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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