Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment

Xueli Huang is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. His research concentrates on management of Chinese outward direct investment, strategic management, and international business. He has published over eighty referred academic papers and articles in leading international journals and one authored book on Chinese Investment in Australia. Dr Huang has also provided consulting services to many Australian and Chinese companies.Ying Zhu is Professor and Director of the Australian Centre for Asian Business at the University of South Australia. He has published extensively on international human resource management, employment relations in Asia, labour law and regulations in Asia and economic development in Asia.

• 1. Introduction2. Strategic entry considerations and their impact on investment performance in the Australian mining industry 3. How does liability of foreignness impact on the behaviour of Chinese MNCs? A case study of Sino Iron Project4. Managing post-transaction integration by Chinese MNCs5. Corporate governance in Chinese-controlled subsidiaries6. Cross-cultural management and HRM7. Corporate sustainable development: How and why Chinese invested firms engage community in the Australian mining industry?8. Conclusion: On-going challenges for Chinese OFDI and MNCs operating abroad