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Globalisation in a VUCA Environment

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 11910

Special Issue Editors

School of Business Administration, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA 17057, USA
Interests: strategic management; marketing; international business
Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
Interests: marketing research; international marketing; strategic management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues

Our Call for Papers focusses on showcasing internationalisation challenges in a world in which volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) is predominant. As trade wars shake the globalisation and order of the economic world, it has become more challenging for firms, especially startups, to survive and grow in a destabilising global environment.

Global demographic shifts, migration and reverse migration, trade protectionism, technological innovations, and changes in customers’ preferences further make VUCA more relevant and critical today. Firms face an acute challenge in internationalising their business—for instance, deciding on an R&D location, managing their global workforce, searching for international suppliers or deciding on the right mode of entry in international markets.

The objective of this Special Issue is to explore internationalisation challenges faced by firms in a VUCA environment, Thus, we have set out to examine how VUCA affects various aspects of internationalisation management by firms—for instance, how multinationals manage their subsidiaries, how born-global companies and startups fund their business and enter international markets, how global virtual teams are managed, and how international R&D is coordinated across different branches, in a VUCA environment.

Dr. Arpita Agnihotri
Dr. Saurabh Bhattacharya
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • VUCA environment
  • internationalisation
  • startups
  • reverse migration
  • born global

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Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability
by Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, Paloma Gónzalez-Gómez-del-Miño and Juan Felipe Espinosa-Cristia
Sustainability 2021, 13(6), 3195; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13063195 - 15 Mar 2021
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Abstract
Scholars had been documenting the Brain Drain phenomenon producing scientific literature for more than 50 years. After three decades of slow but steady progress, literature about this concept has accelerated its progress and growth path, in line with the 9th sustainable development goal [...] Read more.
Scholars had been documenting the Brain Drain phenomenon producing scientific literature for more than 50 years. After three decades of slow but steady progress, literature about this concept has accelerated its progress and growth path, in line with the 9th sustainable development goal “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation” Thus, the present article aims to define the current theoretical trends about the analysis of advanced intellectual human capital’s international migratory phenomenon. This study uses a scientometric methodology on a corpus of 1212 articles indexed to the JCR-WoS from Social Sciences. The period covered in the study is from 1965 to 2020. The paper looks to understand how researchers studied the brain drain concept over the last 55 years in various disciplines. The report covers 99 categories from the Journal Citation Report (JCR) index. Results show that there is a scientific research critical mass that is studying the brain drain phenomenon. The analysis shows thematic trends at the sources, discourses, and consolidates classic works and some novel authors. Those new scholars and theoretical trends lead to refocused analysis beyond countries with a high development level. Such movement constitutes a new challenge in this line of research toward studying the effects of the brain drain in the peripheral areas of knowledge production. Full article
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