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The New Patterns of Competition Between Chinese and European Firms in the Global Shipping and Logistics Industry

In: BUSINESS AND POLICY CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY European Perspectives

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  • Claes-Göran Alvstam
  • Liping Jiang
  • Bent Petersen

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This chapter argues that state-owned Chinese integrated maritime logistics enterprises are about to change the power balance vis-à-vis the hitherto dominant, privately owned enterprises based in Europe. This shift, which has been actively supported as part of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, will directly affect the European Union’s common transport and competition policy. Within the larger Belt and Road Initiative, the Maritime Silk Road project can be seen as the umbrella concept for the comprehensive management of the entire supply chain between China and Europe. We discuss possible policy implications for both China and the European Union when it comes to managing the subtle balance between geopolitical considerations and efficient operations of trade and transport controlled by a few dominant actors. As part of our theoretical framework, we use two extensions of the classical obsolescing bargaining model: the one-tier bargaining model and a bargaining model of reciprocation. By combining the two models, we aspire to explain the changing nature of bargaining relations between, on the one hand, the Chinese government and its state-owned enterprises and, on the other, the private-owned European companies as a function of the goals, resources and constraints of the involved parties.

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  • Claes-Göran Alvstam & Liping Jiang & Bent Petersen, 2025. "The New Patterns of Competition Between Chinese and European Firms in the Global Shipping and Logistics Industry," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Torben J Andersen & Edward Ashbee & Bent Petersen (ed.), BUSINESS AND POLICY CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL UNCERTAINTY European Perspectives, chapter 13, pages 311-355, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781800616226_0013
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    Keywords

    Business Ecosystems; China; Corporate Diplomacy; Deglobalization; Data Regulation; Economic Sanctions; EU Chips Act; India; Money Laundering; Microchips; Multinational Enterprise; Public Responses; The European Automotive Industry; The Global Chip Industry; The Global Shipping Industry; Transnational Management; Uncertainty;
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    • F2 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • F5 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy

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