Multinational Companies in China

Multinational Companies in China
Author: Xin Guo
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787145484

Multinational companies have been doing business in China for over 25 years, with their presence and manning of their operations varying over time. Some mistakes of managing businesses are strikingly common and detrimental. This book explores those mistakes providing guidance that will help readers become more conscious and avoid repeating them.

Multinational Firms in China

Multinational Firms in China
Author: Sea-Jin Chang
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780198743231

As a consequence of aggressive competition, Chinese industries have become increasingly consolidated. While the extent to which emerging local firms can challenge well-established multinational firms varies by industry, there are common characteristics of 'winners' within each firm type. A handful of multinational and local firms emerged victorious by acquiring small, weak, and regional players to become truly national players. During this process, weaker multinational firms were crowded out of the market by stronger multinationals as well as by emerging local powerhouses. The successful local firms that survive competition in China have global ambitions and venture into international markets, challenging foreign multinational firms in the global marketplace. This book examines how multinational firms grew their operations in China and how successful local firms emerged from the restructuring process, as well the competition between them, in the fierce marketplace of China's economic reform. While anecdotal evidence on this topic is widespread, there exists no comprehensive research. This book seeks to address this gap by rooting its discussion in the author's extensive and rigorous statistical analyses and detailed case studies across five industries: consumer products, beer, telecom, automobile, and steel.

The Era of Chinese Multinationals

The Era of Chinese Multinationals
Author: Lourdes Casanova
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-11-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0128168579

Chinese multinationals have grown in size and increased their global presence dramatically over the last decade. They have emerged as formidable competitors for western incumbents. These firms have instigated profound changes, such as displaced trade and investment flows, new business models, and the emergence of a new geography of global innovation. In a single volume, The Era of Chinese Multinationals captures the forces driving the disruptive growth of Chinese multinational corporations. Following a presentation of the surge of Chinese companies, the book turns to corporate characteristics of those firms and how they compare with western multinationals in terms of revenues, profits, branding, and business strategy. The book uses data and case studies to depict the relevant issues with the goal of providing insights to global executives on collaborating and competing with Chinese companies.

Chinese Multinationals

Chinese Multinationals
Author: Jean-Paul Larcon
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9812835016

This book examines the rise of Chinese companies in international markets during the last two decades of rapid expansion of the Chinese economy. The fruit of a collaboration between two leading business schools, HEC Paris and the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University, it provides a comprehensive overview of the strategies of Chinese multinationals in terms of international marketing and branding, M&As and international joint ventures, management of technology, organization and human resource management, etc.The strategies of several well-known companies are described in detail, including Baosteel, Bird, Haier, Hisense, Huawei Technologies, Lenovo, Nuchtech, Petrochina, TCL, Tsingtao Brewery, Wahaha, Wanxiang, etc.

Winning in China

Winning in China
Author: Lele Sang
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1613631073

If Amazon can't win in China, can anyone? When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited China in 2007, he expected that one day soon China would be a double-digit percentage of Amazon's sales. Yet, by 2019, Amazon, the most powerful and successful ecommerce company in the world, had quit China. In Winning in China: 8 Stories of Success and Failure in the World's Largest Economy, Wharton experts Lele Sang and Karl Ulrich explore the success and failure of several well-known companies, including Hyundai, LinkedIn, Sequoia Capital, and InMobi, as more and more businesses look to reap profits from the demand of 1.4 billion people. Sang, Global Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Ulrich, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Wharton School, answer four critical questions: Which factors explain the success (or failure) of foreign companies entering China?What challenges and pitfalls can a company entering China expect to encounter? How can a prospective entrant realistically assess its chances? Which managerial decisions are critical, and which approaches are most effective? Sang and Ulrich answer these questions by examining the stories of eight well-known and respected companies that have entered China. They study: How Norwegian Cruise Line's entry into China displays how cultural differences can boost or sink different companies; How Intel, one of the oldest, most respected firms in Silicon Valley, thrived in a country that seems to favor agile upstarts; How Zegna, the Italian luxury brand, has emerged as another surprising success story and how it plans to navigate new headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic.Through these engaging and illuminating stories, Sang and Ulrich offer a framework and path for organizations looking for a way to successfully enter the world's largest economy. History can be a teacher, and China, a country with 3,500 years of written history, has much to teach.

Global Goliaths

Global Goliaths
Author: James R. Hines
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 585
Release: 2021-04-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0815738560

How multinationals contribute, or don't, to global prosperity Globalization and multinational corporations have long seemed partners in the enterprise of economic growth: globalization-led prosperity was the goal, and giant corporations spanning the globe would help achieve it. In recent years, however, the notion that all economies, both developed and developing, can prosper from globalization has been called into question by political figures and has fueled a populist backlash around the world against globalization and the corporations that made it possible. In an effort to elevate the sometimes contentious public debate over the conduct and operation of multinational corporations, this edited volume examines key questions about their role, both in their home countries and in the rest of the world where they do business. Is their multinational nature an essential driver of their profits? Do U.S. and European multinationals contribute to home country employment? Do multinational firms exploit foreign workers? How do multinationals influence foreign policy? How will the rise of the digital economy and digital trade in services affect multinationals? In addressing these and similar questions, the book also examines the role that multinational corporations play in the outcomes that policymakers care about most: economic growth, jobs, inequality, and tax fairness.

A Guide to the Top 100 Companies in China

A Guide to the Top 100 Companies in China
Author: Wenxian Zhang
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814291471

Chinese-English company name index -- Company-industry index -- Industry-company index -- Introduction -- A guide to the top 100 companies in China -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- About the editors.

China and the Multinationals

China and the Multinationals
Author: R. Pearce
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1781001111

This original and important book explores how the interaction between China and multinational enterprises (MNEs) has the potential to affect the future of the Chinese economy, the global economy, and international business. It examines the interaction of two of the most important forces affecting the development of the global economy in recent decades firstly the opening and massive growth of the Chinese economy, and secondly the rise in foreign direct investment per se and the consequent strategic restructuring of major MNEs. The expert contributors begin by investigating precisely how leading MNEs, with well-honed international practices and commitments, have drawn their subsidiaries in China into their established networks. They suggest that MNEs' operations are increasingly embedded in the growth and sustainability of the Chinese economy itself, rather than merely serving as a supply base for their global markets. The second part of the book examines the emergence of new MNEs from China itself. It shows how these MNEs are seen as integral to China's development, and how their ability to expand reflects strengths from China's growth as well as revealing the growing needs required for sustainability. This timely study will be of great interest not just to those following one of the world's key economies, but also to researchers and students of the fast-paced changes in international business strategy.

China CEO II

China CEO II
Author: Juan Antonio Fernandez
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119583438

Straight from the China CEO: Advice on leading operations in the world’s fastest-moving, highest stakes market. 25 top executives leading high-profile multinational companies in China, as well as seasoned and respected China-based consultants, give their front-line advice on succeeding in this market. Soaring spending power among the world’s largest consumer population, radical digital transformation creating a cash-less, ‘always on’ society, severe generation gaps – these are just some of the factors which have completely transformed China since 2006, the year when the first volume of China CEO was published. And these are three of the main reasons the authors have again teamed up to put together this second volume – collecting entirely new content via in-depth, exclusive interviews with the heads of 25 high-profile CEOs of multinational companies in China, as well as a number of highly respected consultants who have built their careers by delivering advice on succeeding in the market. In this book, CEOs and experts share their strategies for overcoming the most pressing issues faced by business leaders in China now, including: fierce competition from strong, globalized Chinese companies; working with the powerful, complex Chinese government; and successfully attracting the nation’s wealthy but fickle and tech-savvy domestic consumers. Top executives and consultants also divulge their secrets for keeping up with China’s astoundingly broad and rapid digital transformation in which the nation is now leading the world in mobile payment, online shopping, social media, Artificial Intelligence, and facial and voice recognition. They also discuss trends including localization of top positions in China, the rise of female top executives in the country and the challenge of attracting the nation’s highly international, purpose driven millennials. Hear directly from the China CEOs of: ABB, AB InBev, Bayer, Bosch, Carrefour, Coca-Cola, IKEA, Korn Ferry, Lego, L’Oreal, NIIT, Mango, Manulife, Marriott, Maserati, Microsoft, Philips, Scania, SAP, Sony, Standard Chartered, Tata, Udacity, Victoria’s Secret (Lbrands Int’l), Volvo, etc. Learn from seasoned China experts at McKinsey & Co, Economist Group, and more Written in a practical, easy-to-read format ideal for busy professionals, educators, and students China CEO II: Voices of Experience from 25 Top Executives Leading MNCs in China is an invaluable resource for any professionals seeking to work in or with China, or executives expanding their responsibilities in China, and those involved in international business, finance or executive programmes.

Guanxi and Business Strategy

Guanxi and Business Strategy
Author: Eike A. Langenberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2007-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3790819565

This book examines a topic of paramount importance to those doing business with China: the impact of personal relationships (guanxi) on business affairs. It shows that the commercial utilization of guanxi with suppliers, customers, competitors and authorities yields significant sustainable competitive advantages. Coverage also assesses guanxi-based business strategies in terms of compliance with legal and ethical standards.