Multinationals in China Business Strategy, Technology and Economic Development

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.

Si Zhang received her doctorate from the University o Reading, UK, in 2009. She is now a post-doctoral researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing and also an associate of the CCPN centre at the London School of Economics, UK, and the John H Dunning Centre of International Business at the University of Reading. Robert Pearce is Professor of international Business Emeritus at the University of Reading, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of International Business and Economics. His current research interests are in the global strategies of MNEs, their creation and application technology and the application of these aspects of MNEs behaviour to issues in Economics. His most recent book, co-authored with Marina Papanastassiou, is The Strategic Development of Multinationals.

Chapter 1: China and Globalization - The Role of International Business
Chapter 2: The Heterarchical Multinational: Building Global Competitiveness from Locational Difference
Chapter 3: The Chinese Economy: Performance, Potentials and Problems
Chapter 4: Subsidary Roles and MNE Commitment to China
Chapter 5: Markets Supplied from Chinese Subsidaries
Chapter 6: Sources of technology used in MNEs' Chinese Subsidaries
Chapter 7: R&D and the Renewal of Competitiveness
Chapter 8: Determinants of MNE Investment in China
Chapter 9: A Heterarchy in China? The Siemens Chinese Network
Chapter 10: MNEs in China: a Response to Heterogeneity and Dynamism