Call For Papers

The Globalization of Chinese Enterprises: Transformational Politics, Business Strategies, and Future Paths

October 9-10, 2008
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

Overview
Among scholars and students of China, whether from economics, management or politics, a question looms: whither China? Will China replace the US economic, political and business leadership in the 21^st Century? China is not only the world’s most populous nation, but is also the world’s third largest trader, second largest economy in PPP GDP, and the largest recipient of foreign direct investment, surpassing even the United States of America. China has 170 cities with more than 1 million people, 400 million subscribers to wireless phone services, and accounts for over 12% of the world’s luxury goods. Also, China has over a trillion dollars in foreign reserves. On the other hand, China fast economic growth is unbalanced and, perhaps, unsustainable. New or modified models for the globalization of Chinese enterprises are needed given the unique position of China’s emergence into the world stage. Can Western models of economic and political theory help explain China’s current trajectory, either on a macro or a micro level?

Topics
This focused workshop is about the Globalization of Chinese companies and the political and business contexts. List of possible topics include:

• Outward Direct Investment (ODI) of China and Chinese companies
• Impacts of Chinese outward investment on host markets
• Chinese global competitiveness and export performance
• The impact of Chinese business and firms on global business environment
• New models for global enterprise in the Chinese context
• Political transformation, institutional change, and globalization of China
• Organizational design, structure, and outcomes of globalization related to China
• Dissemination of knowledge on the emergence of globalizing Chinese firms
• Chinese forms of business, family ownership, and state-owned enterprises
• Forms of engagement with foreign firms used by internationalizing Chinese firms (e.g.
  partnerships, acquisitions, OEM, ODM, OBM, etc)
• China’s policies towards acquisition of natural and strategic resources