Global Sustainability Strategies of Asian Multinational Enterprises: Beyond COVID-19 Pandemic

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K01671
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: Kittilaksanawong Wiboon 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 教授 (80731984)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: Globalization / Sustainability / Multinational Enterprise / Asia / COVID-19

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research uses emerging phenomena after the COVID-19, especially the political tensions between governments and adopts interdisciplinary perspectives to advance the international business (IB) theories and practices. Such phenomena require multinational enterprises (MNEs) to focus more on risk management and institutional logics rather than the economic rationales in their globalization. The research aims to 1) determine the scales, timing, and modes of globalization, 2) explore the multi-level business-government-society interface, 3) investigate the MNEs' dynamic capabilities to overcome internal and external impediments to respond to simultaneous pressures for global integration and local responsiveness, 4) determine the reconfiguration of global value chains through reshoring, regionalization, and replication, and 5) prioritize factors at firm, industry, national, subnational, and supranational level that drive the globalization to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Free Research Field

strategic management and international business

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

この研究プロジェクトは、新型コロナウイルス感染症後の時代に出現している現象を活用し、マルチレベルのステークホルダーアプローチを採用して国際ビジネス理論を洗練し、発展させることを目指している。このようなアプローチは、グローバル環境の最新動向における国際ビジネスに関連する実務家、政策立案者、社会の問題に、より適切に対処することも目的としている。