Chinese International Investments

by Alon, Ilan; Fetscherin, Marc; Gugler, Philippe

• ISBN13: 9780230280960
• ISBN10: 023028096X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book provides authoritative academic and professional insights into the strategies of Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Distinguished authors from across the world will make a contribution to the growing literature on OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) from China.

Author Biography

Ilan Alon is Cornell Chair of International Business and Director of the China Center at Rollins College, USA, and Visiting Scholar Asia Fellow at Harvard University, USA. He has published 27 books, and over 100 peer-reviewed articles. Dr Alon has taught courses in top Chinese MBA programmes including those at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, East China University for Science and Technology and China Europe International Business School. He is also an international business consultant, with experience in China as well as other countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and America, and a featured speaker in many professional associations. Marc Fetscherin is Associate Professor at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, and the International Business Department at Rollins College, USA. He is also Associate at the Rollins China Center as well as Asia Fellow at Harvard University, USA. He received his PhD from the University of Bern, Switzerland and holds two master's degrees, one from the University of Lausanne, Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Switzerland, and the other from the London School of Economics, UK. He has published three books and his articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Management International Review, International Business Review, Thunderbird International Business Review, International Marketing Review, European Journal of Marketing and others. Philippe Gugler holds the Chair of Economics and Social Policy at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences and is Director of the Center for Competitiveness, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is an affiliate MOC faculty member of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of the Harvard Business School, USA, and a guest professor at the National Institute for Development Agency, Thailand, and at the University of Roma, Italy. He is Vice-Chairman of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) as well as a member of the board of several academic and economic associations in Switzerland and abroad. Professor Gugler has published mainly in the fields of trade and competition, trade and investment, competition policy, multinational enterprises and competitiveness.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
List of Tables	p. ix
Foreword	p. xii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Notes on Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Macro-Environmental Determinants of Chinese FDI
An Institutional Perspective and the Role of the State for Chinese OFDI	p. 11
Home Country Macroeconomic Determinants of Chinese OFDI	p. 38
The Role of Country of Origin and Chinese OFDI	p. 54
Chinese SWFs: At the Crossroad between the Visible and the Invisible Hand	p. 81
Micro-Environmental Determinants of Chinese FDI
Motives and Patterns of Reverse FDI by Chinese Manufacturing Firms	p. 107
A Two-way Causal Link between Internationalization and CEO Equity Ownership in Chinese Firms	p. 122
Effects of Absorptive Capacity on International Acquisitions of Chinese Firms	p. 137
Chinese FDI in Europe and North America
Push and Pull Factors for Chinese OFDI in Europe	p. 157
The Rise of Chinese OFDI in Europe	p. 175
Chinese M&A in Germany	p. 212
Chinese SMEs in Prato, Italy	p. 234
Chinese State-Controlled Funds and Entities in Canada	p. 257
Chinese FDI in Africa
Chinese OFDI in Africa: Trends, Prospects, and Threats	p. 279
Chinese OFDI in Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 300
Cases of Chinese FDI
The Case of Florida Splendid China	p. 329
Benelli and QJ Compete in the International Motorbike Arena	p. 355
Geely's Internationalization and Volvo's Acquisition	p. 376
Final Reflections	p. 391
Author Index	p. 396
Subject Index	p. 405
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