Multinationals in China
Subtitle: business strategy, technology and economic development
By: by Si Zhang and Robert Pearce
Contributors: Pearce, Robert D., 1943-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230577411
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics; International business enterprises; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General; Foreign investment; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
Description: "Though it's widely understood that inward foreign direct investment has played a major role in mediating China's emergence into the international economic system, how and why MNEs have implemented their involvment as part of their global strategy is less well understood. This book explores the nature of the MNE in this era of globalization"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Chapter 1: China and Globalization - The Role of International Business; title: Chapter 2: The Heterarchical Multinational: Building Global Competitivenessfrom Locational Difference; title: Chapter 3: The Chinese Economy: Performance, Potentials and Problems; title: Chapter 4: Subsidary Roles and MNE Commitment to China; title: Chapter 5: Markets Supplied from Chinese Subsidaries; title: Chapter 6: Sources of technology used in MNEs' Chinese Subsidaries; title: Chapter 7: R&D and the Renewal of Competitiveness; title: Chapter 8: Determinants of MNE Investment in China; title: Chapter 9: A Heterarchy in China? The Siemens Chinese Network; title: Chapter 10: MNEs in China: a Response to Heterogeneity and Dynamism.