Chinese State Owned Enterprises in West Africa - 9781138640429

Name: Chinese State Owned Enterprises in West Africa - 9781138640429
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book investigates the globalization process of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in West Africa, primarily in Benin and Ghana, based on ethnographical studies. It challenges the dominant vision of \""a powerful China in Africa\"", and argues that the so-called \""Chinese business advantages\"" \u2013 monolithic Chinese state and Chinese low cost advantages, are non-viable for sustaining Chinese business development in the continent. Considering the Chinese SOEs globalization process in a relational approach, this book examines how the triple embeddedness (Chinese, African and managerial) shapes the Chinese SOEs globalization process over time and space, in diverse dimensions and among different entities \u2013 the Chinese state, Chinese SOEs, Chinese expatriates, the African government, African business partners, African staff, and the African society. It illustrates that the Chinese central state has \""retreated\"" deliberately from its SOE globalization in Africa. The Chinese .