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The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade
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Instead of the dire predictions of a post-pandemic world characterized by increased global risks, decoupling of economies, shake-up of global value chains, and the retreat of globalization, this article proposes that the changes induced by heightened nationalism and protectionism will be marginal rather than fundamental in nature. These marginally higher risks can easily be handled and ameliorated by multinational enterprises through alternate cross-border business strategies and emerging technologies. Moreover, the paper gives reasons why the future world economy will need even more globalization.
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“most FDI and trade indicators, taken over a long-term trend line, i.e., the 1990s–2020 period, show a five- to ten-fold growth (Witt, 2019).”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > MEASUREMENTS FOR GLOBALIZATION
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- Partly supportedcites Witt, 2019 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The State of De-Globalization (p. 3) reports rapid earlier growth in trade and FDI measures. It does not report five- to ten-fold growth for most indicators over 1990–2020; instead, it describes peaks around 2007–2011 followed by declines, and its cited data do not extend to 2020. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) are reduced “…by the increased collection of information …with greater transmission and coordination of informational resources…” (Buckley, 2020). Liesch and Welch (2019) make a similar argument.”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > REDUCING RISKS IN A POST-PANDEMIC WORLD
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- Partly supportedcites Buckley, 2020 sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The VOLATILITY section contains the quoted language, but describes increased information collection, transmission and coordination as firms’ responses to increased volatility, not as a reduction of all four VUCA conditions. The VUCA section says amassing knowledge can help confront those conditions, and COLLECTING INFORMATION says uncertainty can be reduced by collecting information. These passages support a narrower claim than the citing sentence makes. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“The indispensable role played by the multinational enterprise (MNE) as a bridging agent that aggregates demand and arbitrages differences across nations, as well as orchestrates and conduits the cross-border flows of capital (FDI), goods and services (trade), and intellectual assets”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > WHY, POST-PANDEMIC, THE WORLD ECONOMY WILL SEE EVEN MORE GLOBALIZATION
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“These marginally higher risks can easily be handled and ameliorated by multinational enterprises through alternate cross-border business strategies and emerging technologies.”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > Abstract
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“Nevertheless, it is clear that all three international business indicators have grown at a faster rate than the average growth rate of GDP (4.9% CAGR).”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > CONCLUSIONS
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“Apart from their dramatic growth, international licensing is far less affected by recessions and pandemics,5 and is likely to continue its fast growth in the knowledge economy of the future.”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > MEASUREMENTS FOR GLOBALIZATION
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“After the pandemic, the “new normal” may be marginally different, but globalization in its various manifestations will continue, and global coordination will be even more important”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > CONCLUSIONS
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“Moreover, the paper gives reasons why the future world economy will need even more globalization.”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > Abstract
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“The pandemic is more an accelerator of changes that were already under way rather than an event that enforces radically new patterns globally.”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > WHY, POST-PANDEMIC, THE WORLD ECONOMY WILL SEE EVEN MORE GLOBALIZATION
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“This coming “resilience” of supply chains will be manifested in four ways, (1) an increase in the number of suppliers for the same component or item (or lower likelihood of reliance on one sole-source foreign supplier), (2) geographical diversification of supply sources to more than one country”
§ The world economy will need even more globalization in the post-pandemic 2021 decade > THE CONTINUING RATIONALES OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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- Authors
- Contractor, F. J.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Contractor, Farok J.
- ORCID
- Contractor, Farok J.
- Venue
- Journal of International Business Studies
- Published
- 2021-02-01
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 156-171
- ISSN
- 0047-2506 (ISSN-L)
- 1478-6990
- PMC
- PMC7848245
- OpenAlex
- W3126211057
- Semantic Scholar
- c7d92303a36cf881a91bf56c800666ad682f0ed5
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 81
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 35.91
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- journal article
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- en
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- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Strategy and Management › International Business and FDI
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Globalization, Economics, and Policies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › COVID-19, Geopolitics, Technology, Migration
- Keywords
- globalization, COVID-19 pandemic, nationalism, protectionism, global value chains, multinational corporations, emerging technologies, economic decoupling, global risks
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