Intellectual Structure of the Belt and Road Initiative Research: A Scientometric Analysis and Suggestions for a Future Research Agenda

Cao, Mingchun; Alon, Ilan

doi:10.3390/su12176901

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“…Many studies have found that international business finance statistics has an important role in promoting the operation of enterprise groups and found that it has made outstanding contributions in controlling operating costs, improving the quality of financial work, enhancing the group's centralized control and decisionmaking ability, promoting the integration of business and finance, and improving risk control ability, etc. [6,7].…”

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Design of IoT-Based and Data-Driven Mechanism to Drive Innovation in International Business and Finance Statistics

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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The 43 national cross-border e-commerce policies promulgated by the Chinese government in recent years are selected as the research samples, and the PMC index model is applied to evaluate the mechanism design based on the IoT and data-driven innovation mechanism of international business finance statistics. On this basis, the implementation effects of specific policies on cross-border e-commerce in China are evaluated and analyzed, and the role of national macropolicies in guiding local policies is also discussed, with the aim of providing a reference basis for the Chinese government to formulate relevant policies, as well as providing new ideas and methods for the evaluation of cross-border e-commerce policies.

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confidence: 99%

Design of IoT-Based and Data-Driven Mechanism to Drive Innovation in International Business and Finance Statistics

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…One goal of this article has been to review and critique the academic literature on the BRI which continues chugging along, but is at risk of a wreck for reasons extensively detailed above [21]. A more important purpose is to get the literature on the BRI headed in a more fruitful direction yielding greater wins.…”

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Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas

Blanchard

2021

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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This piece examines and critiques the massive literature on China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It details how research currently seems stuck on the road to nowhere. In addition, it identifies a number of the potholes that collective research endeavors are hitting such as that they are poorly synchronized. It also stresses that lines of analysis are proliferating rather than optimizing, with studies broadening in thematic coverage, rather than becoming deeper. It points out that BRI participants are regularly related to the role of a bit player in many analyses and research often is disconnected from other literatures. Among other things, this article recommends analysts focus on the Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI) or Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) in specific regions or countries. It also argues for a research core that focuses on the implementation issue (i.e., the issue of MSRI and SREB project implementation), project effects (i.e., the economic and political costs and benefits of projects), and the translation issue (i.e., the domestic and foreign policy effects of projects) and does work that goes beyond the usual suspects. On a related note, research need to identify, more precisely, participants and projects, undertake causal analysis, and take into account countervailing factors. Furthermore, studies need to make more extensive use of the Chinese foreign policy literature. Moreover, works examining subjects like soft power need to improve variable conceptualization and operationalization and deliver more nuanced analyses. Finally, studies, especially by area specialists, should take the area, not the China, perspective.

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“…They are not financed out of China’s foreign aid budget, but they are subsidised by the Chinese state. The BRI framework aims to promote a parallel sustainable development strategy in other developing nations through the active sharing of working experiences, the transfer of technological capabilities, and training programmes to promote capacity building in host countries (Cao & Alon, 2020). Specifically, SEZs are a significant driver for promoting BRI’s five connectivities (policy coordination, facilities connectivity, unimpeded trade, financial integration, and people‐to‐people bonds), a key platform for international capacity cooperation, an essential way for Chinese enterprises to go global in groups and to integrate into the world, as well as realise the model of mutually beneficial cooperation among countries (Warr & Menon, 2015; Huang, 2016; Akbari et al, 2018; Pang and Huo, 2019).…”

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Knowledge Transfer in the Global South: Reusing or Creating Knowledge in China’s Special Economic Zones in Ethiopia and Cambodia?

Alves

Lee

2022

Global Policy

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Chinese special economic zones (SEZs) have played a key role in attracting massive foreign investment and in facilitating knowledge and technology transfer to local companies. This explains the mushrooming of Chinese‐led SEZs and industrial parks in parts of Southeast Asia and Africa since the early 2000s, and more recently its prominence in the planning of the economic corridors along the Belt and Road Initiative. Our interest in SEZs derives from the fact that they provide novel grounds to investigate the dynamics of knowledge transfer (KT) in South–South exchanges and the extent to which it diverges from more traditional exchanges. This study undertakes a comparative analysis of KT in the Eastern Industrial Zone (EIZ) in Ethiopia, and the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) in Cambodia. The case studies suggest that, although the provision of training by Chinese investors has added value to the labour force, its transformative impact is limited owing to the concentration on explicit KT modalities at lower skills levels and the top–down approach to KT by Chinese companies. These limitations are largely a function of the wide absorptive capacity gap between China and the host countries studied and the absence of more conducive industrial policies.

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Intellectual Structure of the Belt and Road Initiative Research: A Scientometric Analysis and Suggestions for a Future Research Agenda

Cited by 24 publications

References 248 publications

Design of IoT-Based and Data-Driven Mechanism to Drive Innovation in International Business and Finance Statistics

Design of IoT-Based and Data-Driven Mechanism to Drive Innovation in International Business and Finance Statistics

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Blues: Powering BRI Research Back on Track to Avoid Choppy Seas

Knowledge Transfer in the Global South: Reusing or Creating Knowledge in China’s Special Economic Zones in Ethiopia and Cambodia?

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