Varieties of COVID-19 Reactions and Changing Modes of Globalization in the Global South

该项目旨在通过理论和实证贡献，填补有关新冠肺炎对全球价值链(GVC)社会升级轨迹影响的研究空白。总体而言，它渴望以及时的方式观察全球南方的关键参与者以及领先公司等外部参与者是如何应对新冠肺炎危机的，以及现有的社会经济制度和各种资本主义在多大程度上影响了这些危机反应。这项中间研究可以立即与申请人目前的研究结果捆绑在一起，参考新冠肺炎之前的一段时间，然后馈送到关于新冠肺炎之后全球南方社会升级轨迹的结构性重新定位的更长期研究方案中。

The project aims to fill gaps in research on the impact of COVID-19 on social upgrading trajectories in global value chains (GVCs) through theoretical and empirical contributions. Overall, it aspires to observe in a timely manner how key players in the Global South as well as external players like lead firms reacted to the COVID-19 crisis, and to which extent existing socio-economic regimes and varieties of capitalisms shape these crisis reactions. This intermediate research could immediately tie up to current research results of the applicant referring to a period before COVID-19 and then feed into a longer-term research proposal on structural reorientations of social upgrading trajectories in the Global South after COVID-19.