Conclusion: Chinese firms disrupt the competitive landscape

Acronyms

BRI Belt and Road Initiative

FDI foreign direct investment

GDP gross domestic product

GFC global financial crisis

OFDI outward foreign direct investment

R&D Research and Development

SOE state-owned enterprise

Chinese firms’ increased global presence illustrates China’s swift and radical transformation. These firms have grown rapidly and gained scale by leveraging the growing Chinese economy and its huge domestic market, potentially twice the size of both the United States and Europe combined. In the decade following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) alone, Chinese firms have substantially increased their global footprint. Hardly visible among the largest firms in the ...

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