Dexin Yang, Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for International Investment Studies, Shandong University of Finance, PR China

'I believe Dr Yang has produced an original and impressive monograph. . . he has most excellently applied a variety of international business related theoretical insights to analysing and evaluating one of the most significant evolving events of the globalising economy of the first decade of the 21st century. This book deserves to be widely read and carefully studies by IB scholars, by business practitioner, and by government advisory policymakers.'

• Contents: Preface by John H. Dunning 1. Introduction Part I: China’s Outward FDI and Theoretical Issues 2. Emergence and Development of China’s Outward FDI 3. Theories of Foreign Direct Investment 4. Theoretical Issues Raised by China’s Outward Investment Part II: A Network Model and its Application to FDI 5. Networks and Foreign Direct Investment: An Overview 6. A Network Model of Foreign Direct Investment Part III: China’s Outward FDI: A Descriptive Analysis 7. Economic Transition and Outward FDI 8. Economic Development and Outward FDI 9. Geographical Distribution of Outward FDI Part IV: Conclusion 10. Networking and China’s Outward FDI Bibliography Index

Dexin Yang, Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for International Investment Studies, Shandong University of Finance, PR China

'I believe Dr Yang has produced an original and impressive monograph. . . he has most excellently applied a variety of international business related theoretical insights to analysing and evaluating one of the most significant evolving events of the globalising economy of the first decade of the 21st century. This book deserves to be widely read and carefully studies by IB scholars, by business practitioner, and by government advisory policymakers.'

• Contents: Preface by John H. Dunning 1. Introduction Part I: China’s Outward FDI and Theoretical Issues 2. Emergence and Development of China’s Outward FDI 3. Theories of Foreign Direct Investment 4. Theoretical Issues Raised by China’s Outward Investment Part II: A Network Model and its Application to FDI 5. Networks and Foreign Direct Investment: An Overview 6. A Network Model of Foreign Direct Investment Part III: China’s Outward FDI: A Descriptive Analysis 7. Economic Transition and Outward FDI 8. Economic Development and Outward FDI 9. Geographical Distribution of Outward FDI Part IV: Conclusion 10. Networking and China’s Outward FDI Bibliography Index

Dexin Yang, Professor of Economics, Director, Centre for International Investment Studies, Shandong University of Finance, PR China

'I believe Dr Yang has produced an original and impressive monograph. . . he has most excellently applied a variety of international business related theoretical insights to analysing and evaluating one of the most significant evolving events of the globalising economy of the first decade of the 21st century. This book deserves to be widely read and carefully studies by IB scholars, by business practitioner, and by government advisory policymakers.'

• Contents: Preface by John H. Dunning 1. Introduction Part I: China’s Outward FDI and Theoretical Issues 2. Emergence and Development of China’s Outward FDI 3. Theories of Foreign Direct Investment 4. Theoretical Issues Raised by China’s Outward Investment Part II: A Network Model and its Application to FDI 5. Networks and Foreign Direct Investment: An Overview 6. A Network Model of Foreign Direct Investment Part III: China’s Outward FDI: A Descriptive Analysis 7. Economic Transition and Outward FDI 8. Economic Development and Outward FDI 9. Geographical Distribution of Outward FDI Part IV: Conclusion 10. Networking and China’s Outward FDI Bibliography Index