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Political Science and International Relations
Development Economics
International Economics
**zu Wang
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Literature on China’s OFDI
China’s outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) is a new phenomenon, and studies related on this issue are largely underdeveloped. Existing descriptive and empirical studies generally conclude that China’s OF...
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Policy Implications and Conclusions
This book deals with a series of important issues on China’s OFDI. The case studies, Chinalco and Geely, are presented to demonstrate the difficulty of and experiences about Chinese MNCs to become global. In t...
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Introduction
China has achieved great economic success since the launch of the ‘Open Door’ policy in 1979. Up to 2009, China’s annual average growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) was 9.9 per cent, which is around fo...
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Does China’s OFDI Displace OECD’s OFDI?
In the foregoing two chapters, we have studied China’s outward FDI (OFDI) by examining the underlying motivations and the locational determinants in a static framework, and by investigating the dynamic adjustm...
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OFDI and Technology-seeking Strategy: A Case Study of Geely’s Acquisition of Volvo
One important motivation of outward foreign direct investments from a less advanced country such as China is technology seeking. This chapter studies the development of China’s automotive industry in the past ...
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Dynamic Relationship between China’s IFDI and OFDI
The previous chapter examines the underlying motivations and the locational determinants of China’s outward FDI (OFDI). Like the majority of existing empirical studies on China’s OFDI, the previous chapter foc...
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China’s OFDI and Resource-seeking Strategy: A Case Study on Chinalco and Rio-Tinto
The failed advance of Chinalco on Rio-Tinto and the quick success of Minmetals’ acquisition of Oz Minerals within a week in June 2009 represented China’s persistent thirst for natural resources such as iron or...
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Location, Resources and Technology of China’s OFDI
China has been acknowledged as an important recipient of inward foreign direct investment (IFDI) since the ‘open-door’ policy was launched in 1979. However, the rapid integration of China into the world econom...
