Migration and Geopolitical Instability: Effects on International Business

Synthèse

Escalating geopolitical tensions have become a defining feature of the contemporary international business environment. Recent scholarship has examined how firms cope with geopolitical uncertainty, focusing on organizational resilience, employee motivation in hostile contexts, and strategic deployment of human resources under conditions of conflict and instability. However, this work has largely overlooked one of the most profound consequences of geopolitical crises: large-scale, crisis-induced migration and the resulting global reconfiguration of human capital.

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Thèmes proposés

• Geopolitics as setting for migration - Do different geopolitical crises create unique migration contexts and consequences for organizations? How does the emergence of geopolitical migrants shape global migration flows, migration state policies, and firms' acquisition strategies? Do different geopolitical crises create different firm-level challenges and diverse organizational responses? How does geopolitical migration reshape the institutional environment for local and multinational companies? How do local businesses receiving geopolitical migrants tackle enormous migration flows resulting from wars and sudden instabilities? What capabilities are critical for companies to overcome migration challenges and create advantages with geopolitical migrants as a talent pool?
• Geopolitical migrants and diaspora groups - How may local organizations benefit from diverse geopolitical migrant groups? How do geopolitical migrants differ from other migrant groups in employment motives and cultural adjustment capabilities? What are the effects of diaspora expansion in host countries due to geopolitical migration? How have diasporas remained connected to home contexts and what effects emerge for home countries from geopolitical talent outflows? Can brain drain be turned into brain gain if migrants remain engaged in home country processes? To what extent and under what institutional conditions may geopolitical migrants reshape global and local labor markets?
• Migration restrictions and implications for local and international business players - Are migration restriction policies beneficial to local firms? Do nationalistic frictions that restrict migration protect economic interests or create barriers to human capital accumulation? How does institutional context influence organizational cultures and policies affecting migrant integration? How does perception of geopolitical conflict fairness influence state migration policies and migrant labor market inclusion? To what extent do migration restriction policies stimulate recirculation of geopolitical migrants? How does populism influence migration policies and state initiatives? How are different political regimes and varieties of capitalism connected to migration restrictions?
• Location choices and directions of migration flows - Does geographical proximity moderate geopolitical migration? How do historical relations between countries determine geopolitical migration flows and affect adjustment? How do multinational companies decide internationalization strategies considering migration flows? How do geopolitical migrants choose destinations? Which country-specific characteristics are perceived as attractive pull factors for geopolitical migrants?