Chinese International Investments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Ilan Alon, Marc Fetscherin, Philippe Gugler

      Pages 1-8

3. Macro-Environmental Determinants of Chinese FDI

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. An Institutional Perspective and the Role of the State for Chinese OFDI

      • Bing Ren, Hao Liang, Ying Zheng

      Pages 11-37

   3. Home Country Macroeconomic Determinants of Chinese OFDI

      • William Wei, Ilan Alon, Liqiang Ni

      Pages 38-53

   4. The Role of Country of Origin and Chinese OFDI

      • Paz Estrella Tolentino

      Pages 54-80

   5. Chinese SWFs: At the Crossroad between the Visible and the Invisible Hand

      • Michael Keller, Laura Vanoli

      Pages 81-103

4. Micro-Environmental Determinants of Chinese FDI

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Motives and Patterns of Reverse FDI by Chinese Manufacturing Firms

      • Xiaobo Wu, Wanling Ding, Yongjiang Shi

      Pages 107-121

   3. A Two-way Causal Link between Internationalization and CEO Equity Ownership in Chinese Firms

      • Xiaohui Liu, Jiangyong Lu

      Pages 122-136

   4. Effects of Absorptive Capacity on International Acquisitions of Chinese Firms

      • Ping Deng

      Pages 137-153

5. Chinese FDI in Europe and North America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 155-155

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   2. Push and Pull Factors for Chinese OFDI in Europe

      • Yun Schüler-Zhou, Margot Schüller, Magnus Brod

      Pages 157-174

   3. The Rise of Chinese OFDI in Europe

      • Jan Knoerich

      Pages 175-211

   4. Chinese M&A in Germany

      • Yipeng Liu, Michael Woywode

      Pages 212-233

   5. Chinese SMEs in Prato, Italy

      • Anja Fladrich

      Pages 234-256

   6. Chinese State-Controlled Funds and Entities in Canada

      • Xiaohua Lin, Qianyu Chen

      Pages 257-276

6. Chinese FDI in Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-277

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   2. Chinese OFDI in Africa: Trends, Prospects, and Threats

      • Gayle Allard

      Pages 279-299

   3. Chinese OFDI in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Raphael Kaplinsky, Mike Morris

      Pages 300-325

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.

• Asia
• Canada
• China
• foreign direct investment
• internationalization
• Investment
• Investments
• migration
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• The Americas
• investments and securities

• Rollins College, USA

  Ilan Alon, Marc Fetscherin

• University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  Philippe Gugler

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 Policyat 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.

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