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Mémoire
Bachelor thesis

The East investing the West : Chinese investing overseas, with a specific focus on M&As ; trends, effects and likely issues or opportunities for the Swiss market

    2016

104 p.

Mémoire de bachelor: Haute école de gestion de Genève, 2016

Fusion d'entreprises
Investissements
Marchés
Suisse
Chine
English Nowadays, we live in an international world where everything is interconnected. Companies seek new opportunities in expanding their businesses abroad by either investing, acquiring or merging with important companies. In 2015, the total value of M&As has overpassed $5000 billion where half of this amount was invested by the United States and more than 20% by Asian companies. They have started to plant their facilities in developed economies even though cross-national businesses may face challenges in cultural difference. Over the past decades, Chinese leading firms have made headlines with their growth all over the world. The Middle Empire is doing its shopping mainly in the US and Europe where Switzerland is an attractive market. Some of those recent acquisitions represent a huge amount such as the acquisition of Syngenta for more than 40 billion dollars, by ChemChina, which has already Mercuria (a 12% stake) and Nestal, This paper focuses on the understanding of the different issues that can face a company entering in a foreign market. Different aspect of Chinese M&A will be analysed concerning trends, effects and likely issues or opportunities for the Swiss market. Firstly, there is an overview of the Chinese and the Swiss market. It is then followed by the relationship between both countries. As it will be explained, this relationship is one of the most important factors in Chinese business. It can influence and drive the business in a good or bad way depending on the relationship. In fact, it can represent a danger during important deals, which bring us to cultural matters. The latter focus on the cultural differences between China and Switzerland and how it can be measured with the Hofstede dimension. At the end, over more than 570’000 Swiss enterprises there are 90% of companies held by foreign stakeholders whereof 60 are Chinese. It is understandable because the “Swiss Made” and know-how is greatly prized. Chinese come to Switzerland in order to learn and be inspired about what advanced economies do best and catch up with developed countries. However, the transferability of knowledge could represent a danger, but it also gives Switzerland the possibility to have access to new market opportunities in the Asian markets.
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
Notes
  • Haute école de gestion Genève
  • International Business Management
  • hesso:hegge
License
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Identifiers
  • RERO DOC 278191
  • RERO R008563779
Persistent URL
https://sonar.ch/hesso/documents/314590
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