Living up to the expectations of the JIBS Decade Award, Goerzen, Asmussen, and Nielsen’s 2013 paper not only introduced the literature on global cities to the international business (IB) community but continues to be generative. In their “Retrospective and a Looking Forward” paper 10 years later, the authors highlight megatrends about people, places and things, and new contexts and alternative perspectives, and they encourage further new ways of thinking about global cities and IB. This commentary expands upon their framework of three overlapping circles of global issues, global organizations, and global locations, by drawing especially from recent experiences in the U.S. and research in economic geography and allied fields. Facing global issues of climate change, human rights, health, housing, and the impacts of digital technologies on work, cities offer prospects of responding to these challenges, a context for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to consider. Against the backdrop of large-scale global migrations of unskilled, mostly contract, workers to global cities in developed economies, recruitment agencies and advocacy groups for migrants are global organizations as important as MNEs. Finally, the fluidity of physical boundaries, as illustrated by city-regions, world regions beyond traditional Western-centric perspectives, and intra-national variations, is key to analyzing global locations.

Goerzen、Asmussen 和 Nielsen 的 2013 年论文不负 JIBS 十年奖的期望，不仅向国际商业 (IB) 界介绍了有关全球城市的文献，而且继续富有创造力。在 10 年后的《回顾与展望》论文中，作者强调了有关人、地点和事物的大趋势，以及新的背景和替代观点，并鼓励人们进一步以新的方式思考全球城市和国际文凭组织。这篇评论特别借鉴了美国最近的经验以及经济地理学和相关领域的研究，扩展了全球问题、全球组织和全球地点三个重叠圈的框架。面对气候变化、人权、健康、住房以及数字技术对工作的影响等全球性问题，城市提供了应对这些挑战的前景，也是跨国企业 (MNE) 需要考虑的背景。在全球范围内非技术工人（大部分是合同工）大规模移民到发达经济体的全球城市的背景下，招聘机构和移民倡导团体是与跨国公司一样重要的全球组织。最后，物理边界的流动性，如城市区域、超越传统西方中心视角的世界区域以及国家内部的变化，是分析全球位置的关键。