Chinese International Investments

Description: Chinese International Investments provides authoritative academic and professional insights into Chinese international investments in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. It offers a wide range of up-to-date academic insights and findings, which are rounded off with lessons to be learnt from historical developments (success and failure stories), an evaluation of current trends and the motives and modes of entries used by Chinese companies. Contributions on outward foreign direct investments from China in different regions of the world, specific industry and case studies and theoretical contributions highlight the need for such additional research in this emergent area of international business.

Contents: List of Tables List of Figures and Graphs Foreword by Peter Buckley Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction Ilan Alon, Marc Fetscherin, and Philippe Gugler Part 1: Macro-Environmental Determinants of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment Chapter 1: An Institutional Perspective and the Role of the State for Chinese OFDI Bing Ren, Hao Liang, and Ying Zheng Chapter 2: Home Country Macroeconomic Determinants of Chinese OFDI William Wei, Ilan Alon, and Liqiang Ni Chapter 3: The Role of Country of Origin and Chinese OFDI Paz Estrella Tolentino Chapter 4: Chinese SWFs : At the Crossroad between the Visible and the Invisible Hand Philippe Gugler, Michael Keller, and Laura Vanoli Part 2: Micro-Environmental Determinants of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment Chapter 5: Motives and Patterns of Reverse FDI by Chinese Manufacturing Firms Xiaobo Wu, Wanling Ding, and Yongjiang Shi Chapter 6: A Two-way Causal Link between Internationalization and CEO Equity Ownership in Chinese Firms Xiaohui Liu and Jiangyong Lu Chapter 7: Effects of Absorptive Capacity on International Acquisitions of Chinese Firms Ping Deng Part 3: Chinese FDI in Europe and North America Chapter 8: Push and Pull Factors for Chinese OFDI in Europe Yun Schuler-Zhou, Margot Schuller, and Magnus Brod Chapter 9: The rise of Chinese outward FDI in Europe Jan Knoerich Chapter 10: Chinese M&A in Germany Yipeng Liu and Michael Woywode Chapter 11: Chinese Migration in Europe Anja Michaela Fladrich Chapter 12: Chinese State-Controlled Funds and Entities in Canada Xiaohua Lin and Qianyu Chen Part 4: Chinese FDI in the Africa Chapter 13: Chinese OFDI in Africa: Trends, Prospects and Threats Gayle Allard Chapter 14: Chinese OFDI in Sub-Saharan Africa Raphael Kaplinsky and Mike Morris Part 5: Cases of Chinese Foreign Direct Investment Chapter 15: The Case of Florida Splendid China Wenxian Zhang Chapter 16: Benelli and QJ Compete in the International Motorbike Arena Francesca Spigarelli, William Wei, and Ilan Alon Chapter 17: Geely's Internationalization and Volvo's Acquisition Philippe Gugler and Marc Fetscherin Final Reflections Ilan Alon, Marc Fetscherin, and Philippe Gugler

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 programs 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 an Associate of the Rollins China Center as well as an Asia Fellow at Harvard University. He received his PhD from the University of Bern, Switzerland andholds two master's degrees, one from the University of Lausanne, Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Switzerland and the other from London School of Economics and Political Science, 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 the 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, 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.