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.

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机器人不会感染冠状病毒：COVID-19 大流行和国际分工

我们评估了正在蔓延的 COVID-19 大流行的预期长期后果，并以此为平台，主张国际商业 (IB) 作为一个领域应该扩大其研究议程以研究国际分工。全球对 COVID-19 大流行的反应正在加速向资本去全球化的转变，但它也将加速向更强大的劳动力全球化的转变。这种自相矛盾的同时发生的去全球化和全球化为未来的 IB 研究提供了丰富的机会。