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 enlarge | Authors: Robert Collins, Carson Block
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 244956
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0470049294
Dewey Decimal Number: 337
EAN: 9780470049297
ASIN: 0470049294
Publication Date: August 6, 2007
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 This book has it right! September 2, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Collins/Block team hits all the right notes in this engaging, comprehensive and often amusing primer on doing business in China. It is intended for a person who knows business, hopefully knows something about international business, but wants to plunge into the China market. That plunge should not be taken lightly or without some expert guidance. "Doing Business in China for Dummies" is a good start.
The opportunities and challenges of operating in China are succintly described without viewing the country through rose-colored glasses. The most promising industries are listed (e.g. health care, environmental products, and agribusiness). It covers how to work within the still pervasive Chinese bureaucracy, scout locations, and staff operations (hire some experts but put a long-term trusted company employee in charge.) Currency, remitting profits, and financing are explained as well as the many social aspects of doing business in China.
As a former expatriate banker in Beijing I have seen how much China's cities have changed. This book tells me that doing buiness there has changed much less. It's still difficult to get in touch with Chinese business men and government officials and the banquet scene still features too much mao-tai. (I developed a tolerance for it over way too many banquets but this is not recommended).
If you are thinking of doing business in China - read this book, think deeply, and then move forward with careful planning and lots of patience.
Doing Business in China for Dummies August 31, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the most contemporary book I have read on conducting business in China. I highly recommend it to anyone contemplating or doing business
in China.
 Good high-level guidelines and specific information August 16, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the background information about Chinese culture and history and
how that interacted with specific business practices. The book is well organized and the writing clear. Well worth the reading.
Team with China for Change August 10, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Among the "Dummies" books, this one seems both timely and among the best. Besides emphasizing the need to guard proprietary & intellectual info, including trademarks (1st-to-file rule of registration), I liked the caveats and values discussion on partnerships in Chap#7. I know a Kansas company with a global product that started easily in China using the J-V approach (and a savvy ex-pat), but then grew ahead of its own forecasts by shifting to proprietary operations once they'd gained their partner's confidence (China, of course, wanted the product).
I also appreciated recognition of the need to make uniform (or to integrate) corporate cultures and processes across national borders. While strength can come thru diversity, it's also possible for confusion to reign if systems on opposite sides of the globe don't match up. To me, one thing this suggests is that our (USA's) global output would rise if we joined Britain (and everyone else) in the move to METRIC weights & measures, however gradual we do it. More universal products for US (and perhaps fewer lost missions to Mars due to mixed-measurements)!
One area seeming to deserve more attention in the book was the brief section on Growth Industries. Rather than a short page on Environment & Energy, emphasis could have been added on the role of these two "E's" in ALL that goes on in a modern economy. What business can prosper without fuel; and can we make the power we need sustainable and "natural", before choking and burning things up?
Whatever environmental and energy solutions are engineered as we endeavor to save ourselves and our systems, they will be brought to market most universally (and at least cost) if China AND our great US of A work together. As mentioned on pg 28, "building energy supplies close to the site of the end-user" may be the way of the future (distributed generation). For the "dummies" and "nerds" who will be seeking solutions and making essential change happen, this book is a push in the right direction (global cooperation in business).
Dave Friedrichs
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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