Globalization, Political Economy, Business and Society in Pandemic Times

Tony Fang, PhD, is Professor of Business Administration, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University, Sweden. John Hassler, PhD, is Professor of Economics, Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.

Chapter 1. Globalization, Political economy, Business and Society in Pandemic Times; Tony Fang and John Hassler

Part I Globalization, Political Economy and Society in Pandemic Times

Chapter 2. From Vulnerability to Sustainability? The Enforced Cooling down of an Overheated World; Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Covid-19; David Zilberman

Chapter 4. Macroeconomic Perspectives on the Corona Crisis; John Hassler

Chapter 5. Human Rights: Four Lessons from the Pandemic in a Post-pandemic World; Hans Ingvar Roth

Chapter 6. Prosperity and Disease: Lessons from History; Richard Grassman

Chapter 7. Covid-19 and its Impact on Medical Research and Society; Qiang Pan-Hammarström

Part II Industry and Business Strategy in Pandemic Times

Chapter 8. Thinking strategically during the Global Pan(dem)ic; Klaus E. Meyer

Chapter 9. Post-Covid Debates in Global Strategy; Mike W. Peng and Nishant Kathuria

Chapter 10. The Effects of COVID-19 on Tourism in Nordic Countries; Sigbjørn Tveteraa and Jinghua Xie

Chapter 11. Global Value Chain Strategies before and after the Pandemic Crisis: The Case of Volvo Cars; Claes-Göran Alvstam and Tony Fang

Part III Leadership and Human Capital in Covid-19 Pandemic

Chapter 12. Sweden’s Covid-19 Strategy from a Leadership Perspective: Importance of Trust and Role Models; Maria Fors Brandebo

Chapter 13. The Dual role of Trust in Creative Global Virtual Teams: Implications for Leadership in Times of Crisis; Lena Zander, Oliva Kang, Audra I. Mockaitis, and Peter Zettinig

Chapter 14. Human Capital Mobility in Developing Countries under the Pandemic Times: Losses or Opportunities?; Mariia Shagalkina and Marina Latukha

Chapter 15. At the Crossroads: International Student Exchanges during the Covid-19 Pandemic; Y. Elizabeth Wang

Part IV International Relations and International Business in an Emerging Bifurcated World

Chapter 16. China’s Diplomatic Offensive and Rivalry with the US in response to Covid-19; Sam Suisheng Zhao

Chapter 17. The New Challenges in the Emerging Context of Global Decoupling; Peter P. Li

Chapter 18. The EU–Japan Strategic Partnership Agreement: A Tool to Tackle the COVID-19 Crisis and Other Global Issues?; Patrik Ström, Marie Söderberg, and Åsa Malmström-Rognes

Part V Covid-19 and New Research Agenda

Chapter 19. Covid-19 and International Business; Ilan Alon and Vanessa Bretas

Chapter 20. New Configurations of the IB theories: Dynamic response to the Environmental Challenges; Andrei Panibratov, Liana Rysakova, and Yunxin Luo

Chapter 21. A Cross-cultural Research Agenda in the time of Covid-19; Rosalie L. Tung