Chinese Investment in Australia: Unique Insights from the Mining Industry [Paperback]

This book provides comprehensive coverage on the key issues of Chinese investment in the Australian minerals industry. It offers unique insights into the entry process, the management of Chinese investments, and their success factors and lessons learnt as being impacted upon by the entangling of political, economic, social and competitive forces.Introduction An Overview of China's Investment in the Australian Mineral Industry: Theoretical Perspective and Investment Characteristics Australian Regulatory Framework on FDI and its Application to Chinese Investment The Impact on Australian Political Economy from Chinese Investment into Australia's Mining Industry The Investment Process and After-Transaction Integration and Management Why the Proposed Chinalco Investment in Rio Tinto Failed Chinese Investment in the Australian Minerals Industry: Concluding Comments, Organisational Challenges and Policy ImplicationsXUELI HUANG is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. He was the Founding Director of the China-Australia Business Research Centre at Edith Cowan University between 2007- 2010. His research focuses on strategic management, innovation management, and Chinese investment in Australia. He has published over forty referred academic papers and articles in leading international journals, including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Advertising Research, and R&D Management. He has provided consulting services and training programmes to many Australian and Chinese firms.

IAN AUSTIN is an Australian Researcher on American and East Asian Political Economy and he is currently working at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. He is the author of Common Foundations of American and East Asian Modernisation: from Alexander Hamilton to Junichero Koizumi, Goh Keng Swee and Southeast AslĂ)