The increasing necessity to establish a permanent presence in overseas markets challenges the tradition of tide-like market entry mode of international contractors and confronts them with an important dichotomous selection between permanent entry mode and mobile entry mode. By borrowing theories...

China has used the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) delivery method since the early 1980s. However, there has been a varying degree of success achieved through the use of this method aimed toward the increased development of economic infrastructure projects. The Chinese government continues to shift...

China and Africa have a long history of political and economic ties, which have greatly intensified in recent years. Both bilateral trade and Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa grew about fourfold between 2001 and 2005, accompanied by a major influx of Chinese enterprises and...