Viewpoints

Mary Teagarden, professor of global strategy at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, has lived and worked in 11 Latin American countries, five European countries and eight Asian countries - in addition to the United States and Canada. She speaks English and Spanish fluently and some French and Chinese. She is editor of Thunderbird International Business Review. She recommends these five books on China's changing role in the global economy.

Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition

By Ming Zeng and Peter Williamson

Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2007

This book provides a detailed account of the impact of the new wave of Chinese multinationals on Western business and advice on how to counter this challenge.

The Chinese Century

By Oded Shenkar

Wharton School Publishing, 2005

Oded Shenkar provides rich discussion of the shifts in geopolitical and economic balance of power that will shape the competitive context in this century.

Dragon Multinationals: A New Model of Global Growth

By John Mathews

Oxford University Press, 2002

Dragon Multinationals paints the picture of companies from the economic periphery reshaping competition.

Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Ours

By Tarun Khanna

Harvard Business School Publishing, 2007

Tarun Khanna extends the conversation of reshaping competition to that of emerging economy multinationals and introduces a parallel for India.

Inside Chinese Business: A Guide for Managers Worldwide

By Ming-Jer Chen

Harvard Business School Publishing, 2007

Ming-Jer Chen offers insights into the Chinese social and cultural values that underpin the business practices that drive the global expansion of the vanguard companies highlighted in our research. He offers advice on how to work, compete and cooperate with these companies.