Barriers to Entry Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Breakthroughs
This book offers a unique perspective on the challenges that non-Chinese employed by Chinese companies face and provides insight into the issues foreign employees working for Chinese management encounter. As its source of content the book analyzes the exp
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Barriers to Entry
Paul Ross
Barriers to Entry Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Breakthroughs in a Chinese Workplace
Paul Ross Boynton Beach, FL, USA
ISBN 978-981-32-9565-0 ISBN 978-981-32-9566-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9566-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. The registered company address is: 152 Beach Road, #21-01/04 Gateway East, Singapore 189721, Singapore
To my grandmother, Annette Margolis who envisioned this book 50 years before it was written
Foreword
The globalization of Chinese firms has a number of dimensions: People, Information, Goods and Services and Capital. Focusing on the movement of people, Paul writes from the unique vantage point of someone who has worked in China for a long period of time and been a member of the workforce in a multinational Chinese enterprise. Paul and I first crossed paths at the China Goes Global Conference I co-founded more than a decade ago. The genesis of the conference was a recognition of the growing appetite Chinese firms were showing for expansion into markets outside of China. This led to our first book on the subject, Globalization of Chinese Enterprises, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) that we edited with John R. McIntyre, Professor of International Business in the College of Management at Georgia Tech. Paul, who was back in the U.S. at the time and eager to keep on top what was going on in China, saw the China Goes Global conference as a way to stay connected and meet others who had a similar interest. As a way of engaging with the conference and with what we were doing, he offered to pitch in anywhere assistance was need
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