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Abstract
Goerzen et al. (J Int Bus Stud 44:427–450, 2013) became influential because it generated a broader view of the international business (IB) domain. The paper broke new ground by going beyond the country and regional levels to analyze MNE location choices, a novel approach that revealed the importance of global cities. The original argument suggested that global connectedness, cosmopolitanism, and advanced producer services mitigated the liability of foreignness, thereby highlighting the complexity of MNE location decisions. It also drew attention to the need for IB research to take a more nuanced view of MNE behavior. Developments since 2013, however, have rendered a very different world. Our goal in this commentary, therefore, is to challenge the IB community to think more deeply about the future of global cities specifically and about IB more generally. We do this by re-evaluating the role of cities as micro-locations against the emergence of megatrends that are shaping our future, including demographic shift and an increase in social awareness, the changing natural environment and an increase in sustainability concerns, and the rise in capability and application of digital technologies. We conclude by suggesting that IB research must connect more deeply with interdisciplinary theories and methodologies to produce generative IB research.
摘要 Goerzen 等人（J Int Bus Stud 44:427-450，2013 年）的论文影响深远，因为它为国际商务（IB）领域提供了更广阔的视角。该论文突破性地超越了国家和地区层面来分析跨国企业的区位选择，这种新颖的方法揭示了全球城市的重要性。最初的论点认为，全球连通性、世界性和先进的生产者服务减轻了异国情调的影响，从而凸显了跨国企业选址决策的复杂性。它还提请人们注意，国际企业研究需要从更细微的角度看待多国企业的行为。然而，2013 年以来的发展已经呈现出一个截然不同的世界。因此，我们在这篇评论中的目标是挑战国际企业界，让他们更深入地思考全球城市的未来，以及更广泛意义上的国际企业。为此，我们重新评估了城市作为微观地点的作用，以及正在塑造我们未来的各种大趋势，包括人口结构的变化和社会意识的提高、自然环境的变化和可持续发展问题的增加，以及数字技术能力和应用的提升。最后，我们建议国际基础结构研究必须更深入地与跨学科理论和方法联系起来，以开展具有生成性的国际基础结构研究。
期刊介绍：
The Selection Committee for the JIBS Decade Award is pleased to announce that the 2023 award will be presented to Anthony Goerzen, Christian Geisler Asmussen, and Bo Bernhard Nielsen for their article titled "Global cities and multinational enterprise location strategy," published in JIBS in 2013 (volume 44, issue 5, pages 427-450).
The prestigious JIBS Decade Award, sponsored by Palgrave Macmillan, recognizes the most influential paper published in the Journal of International Business Studies from a decade earlier. The award will be presented at the annual AIB conference.
To be eligible for the JIBS Decade Award, an article must be one of the top five most cited papers published in JIBS for the respective year. The Selection Committee for this year included Kaz Asakawa, Jeremy Clegg, Catherine Welch, and Rosalie L. Tung, serving as the Committee Chair and JIBS Editor-in-Chief, all from distinguished universities around the world.
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