Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe
China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious global infrastructure development strategy that covers 152 countries around the world. Despite strong support from the Chinese government, public response to BRI has been quite mixed in Europe, because people are still not sure about how th...
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| author | Sharma, Piyush Leung, Tak Yan Davcik, Nebojsa Cardinali, Silvio |
| author_facet | Sharma, Piyush Leung, Tak Yan Davcik, Nebojsa Cardinali, Silvio |
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| description | China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious global infrastructure development
strategy that covers 152 countries around the world. Despite strong support from the Chinese
government, public response to BRI has been quite mixed in Europe, because people are still
not sure about how this would benefit or harm their individual and national interests. We
address this uncertainty about the potential outcomes of BRI by exploring how it is perceived
by the managers working in professional services firms in the partner countries in Europe. We
also introduce a new construct, ‘BRI-Readiness’, the ability of managers and organizations to
face the challenges and tap the opportunities offered by BRI. We also plan to develop a scale
to operationalize BRI-Readiness. Finally, we explore the impact of psychic distance (in terms
of their cultural values and business practices) and cultural familiarity on the acceptance of
BRI by the managers in professional services firms in Europe. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-782662020-06-08T07:50:05Z Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe Sharma, Piyush Leung, Tak Yan Davcik, Nebojsa Cardinali, Silvio China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious global infrastructure development strategy that covers 152 countries around the world. Despite strong support from the Chinese government, public response to BRI has been quite mixed in Europe, because people are still not sure about how this would benefit or harm their individual and national interests. We address this uncertainty about the potential outcomes of BRI by exploring how it is perceived by the managers working in professional services firms in the partner countries in Europe. We also introduce a new construct, ‘BRI-Readiness’, the ability of managers and organizations to face the challenges and tap the opportunities offered by BRI. We also plan to develop a scale to operationalize BRI-Readiness. Finally, we explore the impact of psychic distance (in terms of their cultural values and business practices) and cultural familiarity on the acceptance of BRI by the managers in professional services firms in Europe. 2020 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78266 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Sharma, Piyush Leung, Tak Yan Davcik, Nebojsa Cardinali, Silvio Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe |
| title | Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe |
| title_full | Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe |
| title_fullStr | Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe |
| title_short | Belt and Road Initiative – Challenges and Opportunities for Europe |
| title_sort | belt and road initiative – challenges and opportunities for europe |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/78266 |