Purpose – This article aims to analyse the reasons for Spanish companies to invest in China and the factors that … handed over the reins to Manuel Torres. Findings – The main reason for investing in China is its market. It is worth … mentioning here that there has been a paradigm shift whereby China has gone from being the “world's factory” to the “world …

sectors of excellence in one of the best performing industrial areas of China: Guangdong Province. Design … growth of China as a whole, the paper stresses the degree of concentration of such growth and the importance of focusing on …

few papers testing the relationship between policies and industrial performances in China. Even fewer explore this …

industry in Guangdong (China). Findings – Both wine and tea have strong links with their place of origin. The two case studies …

/implications – The results pave the way for more general discussions on the emergence of champions of excellence in China. They reinforce … experimented form of rewarding used in China – might be an effective way to stimulate virtuous imitative processes. Originality …

Purpose – This article aims to compare the average profitability by sector for companies that have invested in China … invest in China gain economic rewards that are greater than those that do not invest in China, with the most profitable …

article focuses on a leading debate of the times: how to view the rise of China's outward foreign direct investment (OFDI …)? The article argues that the so‐called “China threat” brought by such OFDI, as it is often portrayed by the (Western) media …, is a myth that cannot be substantiated by evidence‐based scholarly analysis. Findings – At present, China's OFDI stock …

. Design/methodology/approach – A set of gravity models are estimated on a unique panel dataset from China Customs Statistics … the years 1988‐2008. Findings – Higher oil prices increase the sensitivity of China's exports to distance. This effect is …