The GEI asked senior HR managers of more than 200 multinationals in 22 countries what in their view were the main issues for the next 10 years. In their view the most relevant issues that stood out head and shoulders above others are found in cross-border business operations, such as reorganisation, outsourcing, insourcing, merger and acquisition. According to the GEI, this issue is without doubt connected to the emergence of new multinationals from emerging economies in particular, and moreover to the further globalisation of most of the existing multinationals from mainly western economies