Empresas brasileiras na China: estratégia e gestão / Brazilian companies in China: strategy and management

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Globalization has had many consequences for the world economy governance, particularly orchestrating an economic reordering in which emerging countries have taken a much more prominent role. This role can be seen also by the rise of large multinational companies based in those countries. China and Brazil are two important examples of countries that have gained great importance in the global scene and whose companies are also beginning to lead and excel in some sectors. However, only a few Brazilian companies have activities in China, beyond exports from Brazil. This dissertation aimed to discover which are the reasons for this pattern, taking as preliminary assumptions that it is due to a lack of knowledge and to the intense difficulties faced by Western companies, particularly Brazilian ones, in China. Moreover, another possible reason should be a lack of attitude of the Brazilian government in exerting its required role in the process. We reviewed the literature on motivations and outcomes of foreign direct investment for companies and countries, international competitiveness, economic relations between Brazil and China, government-business relations in the process of internationalization and cultural as well as institutional differences between the two countries. Therefore, it was possible to establish a theoretical framework, whose evaluation was performed by means of case studies of five Brazilian companies with activities in China. It was concluded that, despite the different sectors of these companies and the different levels of invested capital in China, the motivations for entering the country, the difficulties in the process of entry and operations and the vision of the role played by the government are similar. The main motivation for entering China was to guarantee a share of the fastest growing market in the world, and also to face an environment in which all companies competitors are doing business in China. The main difficulties faced were cultural and institutional ones, and the government-business relations have been considered distant. More differences were found in the mechanisms used by the companies to manage the difficulties faced. One conclusion is that many of those difficulties should be subject to minimization by analyzing the cases of Western companies already established in China, and through some actions that could be adopted by the Brazilian government and companies themselves.

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economic relations brazil-china estratégia organizacional international business multinational companies from brazil internacionalização de empresas relações econômicas - brasil-china empresas multinacionais - brasil

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