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Qi** Li
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Distribution, Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in China
For many foreign investors, one of the main attractions of China is its enormous market size and the even greater potential for future growth (See Chapter 2). With the Chinese economy growing at about 10 per c...
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Conclusions: Foreign Investment Environment in China Under the Open Door Policy
For many foreign investors, develo** a comprehensive understanding of China poses a major challenge. China is a complex society, by virtue of its deeply embedded and multi-layered cultural heritage, its long...
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China’s Main Attractions to Foreign Investors
This chapter examines the main attractions of China to foreign investors in the context of the contemporary world economy. Three key issues are addressed here. First, the process of globalization in the evolvi...
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The Foreign Investment Environment in China: The Hard Environment
The last two chapters examined the main attractions of China to foreign investors under the contemporary world economic climate and the evolution of China’s open door policy in the aspect of FDI. In the next t...
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The Foreign Investment Environment in China: The Soft Environment (II)
In the last chapter, the historical, political and social backgrounds of China’s reform and opening up to the outside world were examined, and a key factor for doing business in China - guanxi (connections and ne...
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The Economic and Social Influences of FDI in China
China’s opening up has three key objectives: attracting foreign investment, promoting foreign trade, and introducing advanced technologies, skills and management techniques.1 Of these, attracting FDI is probably ...
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Introduction: Foreign Investment in China under the Open Door Policy
Since the implementation of the economic reform in late 1978, China has achieved impressive results, including rapid economic growth, major structural changes and unprecedented improvement in living standards ...
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Opening the Door to FDI: The Evolution of Relevant Policies in China
In the last chapter, the main attractions of China to foreign investors in the context of the contemporary world economy were examined. This chapter identifies the key steps of China’s opening up to foreign in...
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The Foreign Investment Environment in China: The Soft Environment (I)
Compared with the hard environment for FDI, the soft environment is much more difficult to evaluate because it comprises a wide range of intangible factors. These factors are examined in detail in this and the...
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Reforming State-Owned Enterprises: Diversifying Ownership Versus Improving Management
One line of thought on reforming state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the ownership school, stresses diversifying ownership to eliminate government control. A second line of thought, the management school, emphasiz...
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Characteristics and Processes of Top Management Teams in High-Tech Firms
This chapter reports the results of two exploratory, interview-based studies of the top management teams (TMTs) of entrepreneurial firms in Chinese high-tech industries. Results indicated that the formal team ...
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From Politics to Markets: A Case Study of Chinese Firms’ Strategic Adaptation
With this study, we contribute to the literature by investigating how institutional, market, and firm factors affect an incumbent firm’s strategic adaptation in China’s transitional economy. Drawing on results...
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Is the Time-Varying Parameter Model the Preferred Approach to Tourism Demand Forecasting? Statistical Evidence
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Regional Competition, Fiscal Federalism, and Economic Structure: Evidence from China
Fiscal decentralization is an important element that fostered the success of China’s reforms towards a market economy. If economics is all about incentives, then understanding how fiscal reforms provided incen...
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Costs and Benefits of Relational Contracting in China’s Transition
This paper is an attempt to account for the social foundations of China’s economic transition from central planning to a market economy which is a process of the completion and perfection of markets. In the ea...
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Human Capital and Technological Spillovers from FDI in the Chinese Regions: A Threshold Approach
Openness is a well-known factor that facilitates the development of a country. Investment from developed to less developed countries are the major channel for realizing this process. Besides the direct effects...
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Component Trade and China’s Global Economic Integration
A symbol of China’s economic integration into the global economy is its progressive engagement in international commodity trade, with an increasing scale and intensity. From 1992 to 2005, the average growth ra...
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The Changing Geography of Innovation Activities: What do Patents Indicators Imply?
Innovation in the global marketplace is at the core of the twenty-first century knowledge-based economy (Schumpeter, 1980: 66). Innovation is in itself a fuzzy concept and measuring it is more difficult (Godin...
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Regional Protection and Development as an Exchange Model: To Create a Balance between Eco-Protection and Poverty-Elimination in Eco-protected Areas
Eco-protection and poverty elimination has always been the unsolved problem in many countries and regions; especially for those less-developed ecological protected areas who have to pay extra attention to coor...
