Behind the open door : foreign enterprises in the Chinese marketplace

XV, 313 S

ill

23 cm

Literaturverz. S. 293 - 302

Gauging the New Chinese Marketplace -- Why Study the Expatriates? -- A Methodology for Drawing upon Expatriates' Insights -- Questions Needing Answers -- Results -- Foreign Enterprise Establishment in China -- The Investment Regime -- Challenges for Foreign Investors -- Analysis -- Foreign Enterprises and Human Resources -- Human Resources and Establishment: Pressures Shaping the Labor Contract -- Human Resources after Establishment -- Analysis -- Running a Productive Plant -- Productivity -- The Foreign Experience -- Analysis -- Ex-Factory China: Distribution, Marketing, and Services -- Distribution Rules: A Domestic Trade Policy -- Foreign Investors and Distribution -- Analysis -- Of Laws and Privileges -- China's Legal Environment -- The Expatriate Experience -- Analysis -- Conclusions and Policy Recommendations -- Implications -- "Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries" -- Methodology -- Project finance and the approval authorities' perspective -- The incentive pendulum swings -- Technology Digestion and Acquisition -- The importance of localizing management -- Distribution feedback leading to efficient production -- US-China trade, 1980, 1985-97 -- Japan-China trade, 1985-97 -- China's top trading partners, 1996 -- Number of FDI contracts by enterprise form, 1979-97 -- FDI in China, 1991-97 and 1979-97 -- Enterprise forms, 1997 -- Japanese enterprises in China -- Average capital of FIEs in China, 1979-97 -- Roundup of issues: establishment -- Employment of Chinese by foreigners, 1980-96.

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