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    Belt‐and‐Road Initiative: driving the need to understand intellectual capital in Chinese multinational enterprises
    (2020) Wei, William Xiaojun; Swallow, Phillip; Kong, Eric; Thomson, Stanley Bruce
    China's Belt‐and‐Road Initiative (BRI) is one of the most ambitious trade and development projects in history which intends to link Chinese multinational enterprises (CMNEs) to the Asian subcontinent, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe through two trade routes, land and sea. The project involves infrastructure development, human knowledge, and international relations to develop trade relationships. Increased competition along the two routes will see other governments taking initiatives to protect the business community in their nations; thus, adding barriers that must be overcome by CMNEs. The success of CMNEs in the BRI relies on the three components—structural, human, and relational—which are the three components of intellectual capital (IC). Through the use of IC CMNEs can assess their strengths and weaknesses. It will be the understanding of these strengths and weaknesses which will drive the success or failure of CMNEs.
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    Equality and harmony: diversity management in China
    (2019) Thomson, Stanley Bruce; Wei, William X; Swallow, Phillip
    Research into diversity and diversity management has a history going back some forty years or more. As a concept, diversity management developed within the management literature, focusing initially on equal opportunity issues and then going on to embrace, successively, affirmative action policies, diversity management methodologies, and finally diversity management theories and models. The great many articles and books written on the subject reflect its increasing scope, complexity, and nuances of diversity. One limitation of the literature is that it is based almost entirely on American research, which is hardly surprising given that the concept originated in the United States (US) (Agócs and Burr, 1996; Teicher and Spearitt, 1996; Zhang and Tsui, 2013). How best to manage diverse workforces is now, however, a global concern. In the literature there are very few studies on diversity management from developing countries. In particular, there exist very few articles that delve into issues of diversity management in China. This seems to be at odds with that country’s status as a powerhouse driving the global economy.