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Fdi Technology Spillovers Within And Across Industries: Evidence From China, Xiaowen Tian, Shuanglin Lin Jul 2010

Fdi Technology Spillovers Within And Across Industries: Evidence From China, Xiaowen Tian, Shuanglin Lin

Xiaowen Tian

Using panel data of 11324 firms in China from 1996 to 1999, the study finds that FDI tends to generate positive technology spillovers to domestic firms within the same industry, but adversely affect productivity of domestic firms in other industries. It is also found that both the positive and the adverse effects are more significant at the local than the national level. Evidence from China thus suggests that FDI technology spillovers are in favor of domestic firms within the same industry rather than domestic firms in other industries, and are most likely to affect domestic firms within the same locality. …


Law For Foreign Business And Investment In China, Vai Lo, Xiaowen Tian Jul 2010

Law For Foreign Business And Investment In China, Vai Lo, Xiaowen Tian

Xiaowen Tian

In trying to establish a presence in China, foreign investors have found it imperative to understand the regulatory environment of this potentially huge market. This book provides an up-to-date overview of the legal framework for doing business in China. It covers such topics as state structure; legislative amendments and enactments on direct foreign investment; the court system; the legal profession; business entities; foreign investment enterprises; contracts; intellectual property; labor and employment; consumer protection; taxation; securities; and dispute resolution.Apart from explaining legal principles, the book highlights liberalisation measures that China has undertaken to fulfil its WTO commitments; elucidates complicated legal concepts …


Forming A Right Recognition On The Cultural Divergence And Conflict By Taking Japanese-Invested Companies In China As The Example, Yan Liang Jul 2010

Forming A Right Recognition On The Cultural Divergence And Conflict By Taking Japanese-Invested Companies In China As The Example, Yan Liang

Yan LIANG

It is widely accepted that each culture is unique and should be admired as long as it has existed and developed for a long time, however, it seems not so easy to let one person especially one adult man with obtained comparatively mature view towards the life and the world admit accept and finally like one totally strange culture on the other end of the earth, let alone working with the colleagues with the strange culture.


Managing Fdi Technology Spillovers: A Challenge To Tncs In Emerging Markets, Xiaowen Tian Jun 2010

Managing Fdi Technology Spillovers: A Challenge To Tncs In Emerging Markets, Xiaowen Tian

Xiaowen Tian

Prior studies on foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers have offered little guidance to transnational corporations (TNCs) on how to protect and exploit technology across borders. The present paper argues that TNCs can manage technology spillovers through selection of entry modes, selection of technologies, and selection of investment priorities in the affiliates they establish in foreign markets. A number of hypotheses are derived from theoretical analyses and are tested against firm-level data from China. The findings of the paper have significant implications for TNCs that face fierce competition from local firms in emerging markets.


Nuevamente Europa.... Y China, Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet Jun 2010

Nuevamente Europa.... Y China, Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet

Wenceslao Gimenez Bonet

El escenario monetario internacional está sumido en la penumbra y en la duda. Por un lado, Europa no sale de la crisis de algún país en particular y, por otro, EE.UU. y China presentan síntomas poco claros.


Understanding China’S Retail Market, Sheng Lu Apr 2010

Understanding China’S Retail Market, Sheng Lu

Sheng Lu

China’s growing retail market offers a range of opportunities for foreign investors, but some sectors are easier to access than others.


Globalization And Management, Mike Lewis Mar 2010

Globalization And Management, Mike Lewis

Mike Lewis D.Mgt.

The reach of markets and business expanded across the globe more than half a millennium ago when Europeans conquered the seas. Since that time, communication and information technologies have reduced to span of the globe to the speed of electrons so that buyers and sellers can exchange in one second or less. Technology combined with favorable politics and exploding world populations ushered in the era of globalization. With production and commodity drivers, the globe transformed into a shopping cart for profits, power, and people (resources). Uncontrolled and unbalanced outcomes benefited some while harming others, leading to eventual backlashes and failed …


Ohs In China-Work In Progress, Rowan Cahill, Di Kelly Feb 2010

Ohs In China-Work In Progress, Rowan Cahill, Di Kelly

Rowan Cahill

This article explores the barriers and challenges to effective implementation of occupational health and safety regulation (OHS), and occupational exposure limits (OELs) in China in order to identify the lessons for social science scholars and activists. It finds that formal labour legislation, including occupational health and safety legislation is relatively extensive, but rarely effectively realised. This has partly been because of the pace of political and economic transformation in China. As a result, the soft infrastructure of skills and knowledge necessary for an active, effective and genuinely protective OHS system are inchoate, and often, as OHS awareness has grown, firms' …


Conteted Heritage In The Ancient City Of Peace, William Feighery Dec 2009

Conteted Heritage In The Ancient City Of Peace, William Feighery

William Feighery

As the imperial capital of thirteen dynasties Xi’an, formerly known as Chang’an (eternal peace), houses a legacy of many of the most important periods of Chinese history and is one of the great archeological centers of the world. This legacy of political and cultural dominance places Xi’an at the forefront of debates on cultural heritage and its role in the evolution of China in the 21st century. Xi’an is currently under a triad of influences from processes of globalization, urban transition and domestic and international tourism. In recent decades and particularly since the dawn on the new millennium, the historic …