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Research Projects



Negotiating in Asia: The Challenges of Value Creation in a Complex Environment

The project is founded on the fact that, while there is a general awareness that negotiation is crucial to effective strategy implementation, most individuals and organisations have often been unable to translate this understanding into practice. This obstacle to value creation provides a challenge to many companies operating in Asia. While recognising the political, cultural and economic diversity of the Asian region, the project aims to identify some of the common obstacles, how they might best be overcome, and which skills individuals need in order to deal with the challenges inherent in cross-cultural negotiations.
Verner Worm, ARC, and Rajesh Kumar, Aarhus Business School, are responsible for the project.

LOK Japan Project

The focus of the project is to explore how Danish companies facilitate knowledge transfer and information exchange between headquarters and subsidiaries/alliances in Japan and how they successfully implement forthcoming ideas into general company/regional/local strategy.
Contact person: Lisbeth Clausen

Business Practices among Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia

Project title: 'De-essentialising Notions of Chinese Capitalism. On Business Practices among Ethnic Chinese SME Entrepreneurs in Penang, Malaysia'. The project is co-sponsored by FSE. Project period January 2007-December 2008.
Contact person: Michael Jacobsen

Human Resource Challenges to China’s Outward FDI Objectives

This project seeks to examine the human resource challenges associated with China’s outward foreign direct investment objectives in two important ways:
  1. By investigating the willingness of qualified talent in host countries to work for Chinese companies that seek to invest abroad
  2. By examining the attitudes of Chinese students, who have studied and/or are now working in Western European countries, about returning to work in China.
Read full project proposal: Proposed Study on Human Resource Challenges to China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment Objectives
Verner Worm, Asia Research Centre, is in charge of this project in cooperation with Susan Aaagaard Petersen, Asia Research Centre, and Rosalie Tung, Simon Fraser University.

China World Project

The main focus of the ‘China in the World, the World in China’ (China World) research project is twofold:
  1. To focus on Chinese business practices among Chinese entrepreneurs in Mainland China and among Chinese business communities from around the world
  2. To focus on notions of 'Chinese-ness' and how it is spelled out in different societal settings.
The China World Network consists of cross-disciplinary international researchers from within the social sciences.
See chinaworld.cbs.dk for further information.
Current network administrators, Michael Jacobsen and Can Seng Ooi, both Asia Research Centre, CBS.

State, Party and the Changing Business Environment in China

The project focuses on the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in governing China. It explores the current state of the CCP and the
many challenges it faces. The project also considers the dynamics of development in China, the party organisation, and the party's role in society more widely.
Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard, Asia Research Centre, is in charge of the project in cooperation with Professor Zheng Yongnian, East Asian
Institute, National University of Singapore and Nothingham University.
See more about the project: State, Party and the Changing Business Environment in China


Last updated by Bente Faurby 19/03/2009