Huawei Goes Global Volume I: Made in China for the World

Huawei Goes Global provides a much-needed, comprehensive, and scholarly examination of the business environment and the striving global operations of China’s technology giant. With theoretical research, case studies, data analysis, and empirical studies, this two-volume work tells a fascinating story of internationalization in an emerging economy. As one of the most powerful Chinese companies in the global economy, the largest global telecommunications-equipment producer and a leading consumer-electronics manufacturer, Huawei is a great example of the globalization of the Chinese enterprises in the twenty-first century.

In Volume I, scholars critically examine the rise of Huawei as a Chinese global enterprise from the political economy and public policy perspectives, as well as Huawei’s development strategies, innovations, and talent management. In Volume II, multiple authors carefully study the growth of Huawei from regional and geopolitical perspectives, and its corporate communication and crisis management.  

Within the framework of the trade conflicts between China and the US, controversies over economic sanctions, intellectual property disputes, and espionage and cyber security concerns, this groundbreaking work makes an important contribution to both academic literature and the ongoing public discourse on Huawei.

Table of Contents

1.     Introduction: From Local Dominance to Global Challenge

Ilan Alon, Wenxian Zhang, and Christoph Lattemann

Part I. The Political Economy & the Public Policy Perspectives of Huawei’s Globalization

2.     The International Political Economy of Huawei’s Global and Domestic Environment

Thomas D. Lairson

3.     Weaponizing Globalization: Chinese High-tech in the Crosshairs of Geopolitics – The Case of Huawei

Francis Schortgen

4.     Helping Hands for Huawei: Dialing into China’s Technology Policy to Understand Its Contemporary Support for Huawei

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

5.     All under Huawei: China’s Vision for a Tech-Sinica

Shirley Ze Yu

Part II. The Rise of Huawei as a Chinese Global Enterprise

6.     Could Huawei Rise the Highest against the Wind?

Denise Tsang and David Fuschi

7.     Huawei’s Expansion into the Global South: A Path toward Alternative Globalization?

Yun Wen

8.     Analyzing Huawei as a Chinese Multinational Operating in Three Worlds: Domestic Policy Instrument, Global Economic Agent, and Foreign Policy Target

Duane Windsor

9.     Huawei's Expansion and Nokia's Retreat: What Lessons Can We Learn?

Anders Kjellman, Xiaohua Yang, Xiaobo Wu, and Sun-young Park

Part III. Huawei’s Development Strategies, Innovations, and Talent Management

10.  Huawei's Long March to Global Leadership: Joint Innovation Strategy from the Periphery to the Center

Manuel Hensman and Guangyan Liu

11.  Huawei’s Global Quest to Catch-up: Internationalizing R&D by Using Greenfield Investments

Kerstin J. Schaefer

12.  Independent or Interdependent Innovation: The Case of Huawei

Xingkun Liang and Yue Xu

13.  Huawei at Bay? A View on Dependency Theory in the Information Age

Laura Kirste and Dirk Holtbrügge

14.  Managing Foreign High-end Talents at Huawei

David W. Hall and Ting Ren

Wenxian Zhang is Professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, USA.