China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a Global Context

Jawad Syed is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Leadership at the Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.Yung-Hsiang Ying is Professor in the College of Management and Executive Vice President at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan.

• 1. Introduction: Examining the Belt and Road Initiative in the China Pakistan Context; Jawad Syed and Yung-Hsiang Ying.- 2. China's Belt and Road Initiative: A Pakistani Perspective; Jawad Syed.- 3. Economic Assessment of CPEC: The Case of a Power Project; Syed M. Hasan, Hamza Ali, Fatima Azmat and Suniya Raza.- 4. Ethics and Governance Norms in Cross-cultural Projects: Implications for CPEC and other China-Pakistan Projects; Jawad Syed.- 5. Linking Ambitions, Transparency and Institutional Voids to South-South Funded CPEC Project Performance; Zehra Waheed.- 6. CPEC and its Potential Benefits to the Economy of Azad Jammu and Kashmir Pakistan; Muhammad Khalique, T. Ramayah, khushbakht Hina and Farooq Abdullah.- 7. Security and the Belt and Road: A Critical Analysis of Threats to Chinese Nationals and Businesses in Pakistan; Jawad Syed.- 8. Belt and Road Initiative: Misgivings and Resolve; Bashir Ahmad.- 9. Aligning the Global Value Chains of China and Pakistan in the Context of Beltand Road Initiative; Yasir Arrfat.- 10. Developing a Competitive Agriculture and Agro-based Industry under CPEC; Mahmood Ahmad.- 11. The Construction Sector Value Chain in Pakistan and the Sahiwal Coal Power Project; Jawad Syed, Syed Khawaja  Anser Mahmood, Ahmed Zulfiqar, Majid Sharif, Usama Imran Sethi, Uzair Ikram and Saud Khan Afridi.- 12. Special Economic Zones (SEZ) under the Belt and Road: Parameters, Challenges and Prospects; Asifa Jahangir, Omair Haroon and Arif Masud Mirza.- 13. Cooperation among Business Schools across the Belt and Road: A CPEC Perspective; Jawad Syed and Memoona Tariq.