Executive Director gives keynote address at 8th China Goes Global conference in Shanghai

Dr. Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, founder and Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, gave a keynote address, entitled "The Imperative of Paying Attention to the Politics of Chinese Outward Investment," to the 8th annual China Goes Global Conference in Shanghai. Dr. Blanchard emphasized that politics has been associated with Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) since the beginning and that contemporary news stories quite clearly illustrate that political factors are shaping Chinese OFDI in a variety of important ways. Among other ideas, he proposed using the concepts of home country, host country, and the global political context as a way to identify important variables that influence the features of Chinese OFDI. A copy of his PowerPoint presentation is available at: http://www.mnccenter.org/publications/imperative-paying-attention-politi...