Exemplar Partner or Controversial Outsider? Huawei’s Strategic Engagement in Oceania

Huawei’s pioneering partnership with Oceania took a dramatic turn in 2018 as its business model is under critical scrutiny. This chapter seeks to examine Huawei’s strategic engagement in Oceania and the rationale behind its recent difficult situations. With an inter-subjective approach, it focuses on Huawei’s strategy and practice, and local partners’ interpretations of and responses to them. The chapter argues that the underlying cause of Huawei’s current difficulty in the region is the fundamental incongruity of values between Huawei and the West, intensified by geopolitical competition. While there is no easy way to resolve the structural problem of great power rivalry in the long term, this chapter suggests Huawei adopt some short- and mid-term tactics to mitigate the risk of getting trapped in geopolitical conflict

The export-diversifying impact of Japanese and US foreign direct investments in the Indian manufacturing sector

The paper highlights the export-diversifying impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in a developing country. FDI may lead to export diversification in the host country if it positively affects the export intensity of industries that have a low share in world exports. Indirectly, FDI may encourage export diversification through spillover effects: that is, the presence of FDI in an industry may increase the export intensity of domestic firms. The empirical results for the Indian economy in the post-liberalisation period show that FDI from the US has led to diversification of India's exports, both directly and indirectly. However, Japanese FDI has had no significant impact on India's exports. Journal of International Business Studies (2006) 37, 558–568. doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400207