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As China’s experiment in market-opening enters middle age, two general classes of competitors have emerged as primary drivers of the economy. International MNCs have learned to manage in China – starting out as sourcers or manufacturers and developing into savvy marketers and trend-setters for the young and upwardly mobile. China’s homegrown State Owned […]

China’s ongoing HR dilemma is one problem I have had a hard time explaining. Since multinational corporations started arriving in China en masse almost 20 years ago, the “China HR Problem” has been the fly in the ointment for top managers and operational planners. Every year in every survey of every […]

Is China an international superpower? The stock answer among Chinese people is that the PRC is becoming an important global economy, but won’t be a superpower any time soon. The real news at the end of last year is what did NOT happen.
Five easily overlooked non-events at the end of ’06 that point to […]

We discussed the emergence of a dominant model for China’s economic organization, which for convenience’ sake can be referred to as China Inc. Economic models are not fool-proof blueprints, but rather general rules and trends that can be used to analyze and predict behaviors and motivations. Japan Inc. was characterized by a strong […]

A ‘China Inc.’ model is emerging that can predict that behavior of future Chinese business trends and organizational behavior. We all remember ‘Japan Inc’, and then the ‘4 Tigers’ (or the ‘4 Little Dragons’, depending on which magazine you read). These were general models that described the broad trends in those […]