This piece looks at the future of Cuba's relations with China in the post-Castro era. It notes that Cuba faces substantial serious domestic and international political and economic challenges and that because of this it sees China as a potential ally and source of economic support. While China will be interested in strengthening its backing for Cuba because of the latter's vital location, it will be cautious. First, China will not want to "jeopardize the hugely more important U.S.
This Op-Ed originally appeared in the February 8, 2018 online edition of The Diplomat. It engages the persistant debate, revived recently for various reasons, about putative Chinese neocolonialism.
Collison, Phoebe, Louis Brennan, and Ruth Rios-Morales
The authors present a multilevel, in-depth analysis of Chinese investment in Ireland using semi-structured interviews and case studies. Their findings suggest that while Chinese FDI can be explained to an extent through classical theories of FDI, such investment is unconventional in many regards and thus requires the extension of established theories.
Chinese outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) only started to increase significantly in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) after the outbreak of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. Chinese OFDI (COFDI) in the BSR has been heavily concentrated in Germany and Russia with a very strong focus on the energy and technology sectors.
Li, Su, Antonio Angelino, Haitao Yin, and Francesca Spigarelli
China has been attracting huge amounts of inward foreign direct investment (FDI). However, it exhibits large dissimilarities in terms of FDI localization across territories that warrant further investigation. In this study, the authors explore the determinants of inward FDIs patterns in China at the county level.
This study explores China’s support of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) through state supported development loans to host countries. Through such loans, China develops commercial and diplomatic relationships with host countries, which, in turn, facilitates Chinese firms’ access to resources while at the same time limiting their exposure to host country political risk.
In the past decade, the growth rates of outward foreign direct investment from China and Latin America were remarkable. China and Latin American countries have emerged to be the main investors among developing countries or even in the world. They have different development bases and modes although they are developing countries.
Besant Hobdari, Peter Gammeltoft, Jing Li, and Klaus Meyer
Research on multinational enterprises that originate from emerging economies has highlighted the importance of the home country for firms’ strategies of internationalization. In this paper, the authors outline a simple analytical framework linking institutions and resource munificence in the home country to the domestic business eco-system in an emerging economy, and thereby to strategies of outward investments.
Jonathan Doh, Suzana Rodrigues, Ayse Saka-Helmhout, and Mona Makhija
For nearly two decades, scholars have explored the implications of “institutional voids” for firm strategy and structure. Although institutional voids offer both opportunities and challenges, they have largely been associated with firms’ efforts to avoid or mitigate institutional deficiencies and reduce the transaction costs associated with operating in settings subject to those institutional shortcomings.
Christoph Lattemann, Ilan Alon, Francesca Spigarelli, and Svetla Trifonova Marinova
This co-authored piece presents a multilevel framework to analyze the motivations and location choices of Chinese OFDIs. It contributes to theory-integration on Chinese OFDI flows and patterns by offering a framework that combines country-, industry- and firm-level analyses and by reflecting aspects from the resource-based view (firm-specific advantages), institutional-based view (push/pull home- and host-country factors), and network-based view (network relations).