CHINA - The Race to Market What China's transformation means for business, markets and the world order

by Story, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780273663218
• ISBN10: 0273663216
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-09
• Publisher: FT Press

Summary

The rise of China is creating both opportunity and alarm. Predictions and assessments vary, but the consensus of opinion is that within the next few decades the world's most populous country will also boast the world's largest economy, perhaps overtaking the US by 2030, but much still stands in the way of the realization of China's potential. How far will this transformation go and what are the implications for business? China's present and future challenge is the business world's future opportunity. How can the business world make strategies for a country as multi-faceted and complex as China? The answer requires us to consider the future, where risks and rewards really lie, and to look at a much broader canvas than we conventionally do when we consider business or investment strategy. We have to understand the forces making China's future before we can learn about making business strategy there. Markets, politics, demographics and technology all have a role to play.

Author Biography

Jonathan Story is Professor of International Political Economy at INSEAD, in France.

Table of Contents

1. China's Curse: To Live in Exciting Times.
2. China and the US: Ineluctable Partners or Rivals?
3. The Land of the Rising Dragon: China's Economic Growth.
4. Riding the Tiger: China's Economic Policy Reform.
5. Feeling the Stones as You Cross the River: China's Political Policy.
6. Applying the Dracula Principle: China joins the WTO.
7. Keeping it in the Family: Corporate Reform in China.
8. Getting China Right: The Multinational Experience.
9. China in the Twenty-First Century.