Theorizing Belt and Road construction mode from institutional and cultural perspectives

doi:10.1007/s11442-021-1862-8

	Theorizing Belt and Road construction mode from institutional and cultural perspectives
	Liu Weidong 1,2; Yao Qiuhui 1,2
刊名	JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
	2021-05-01
卷号	31 期号:5 页码:623-640
关键词	Belt and Road Initiative institutional and cultural difference financing structure high-quality development territorial embeddedness
ISSN号	1009-637X
DOI	10.1007/s11442-021-1862-8
通讯作者	Liu Weidong(liuwd@igsnrr.ac.cn)
英文摘要	There is a gap between the great vision and high-quality targets of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Western recognition of them, which challenges Chinese and Western scholars. This gap should be narrowed by conducting in-depth case studies and comparative studies at the project level. In recent years, the international academic community has paid increasing attention to Chinese outward foreign direct investment (FDI), but Belt and Road construction is much broader in scope, comprising not only FDI projects but also China-financed projects and emerging mixed projects. Our investigation, observation, and examination of the BRI projects find that compared to their Western counterparts, Chinese enterprises have less experience in doing business in other countries and often pay less attention to institutional and cultural differences between China and the host countries. Thus, revisiting the institutional and cultural turn in economic geography and employing its ideas to analyze the BRI projects and summarize their construction modes may contribute to the development of both economic geography and the BRI. This paper first briefly reviews the background and research trends of the institutional and cultural turn and then summarizes three major modes of Belt and Road construction, namely, EPC (Engineering Procurement Construction)-based projects, concession-based projects, and FDI; finally, it draws on the institutional and cultural turn to classify the BRI projects according to the two indicators of "Breadth and Depth of Territorial Embeddedness" and "Destructive Effect of a Project and/or Technology" into four types: transformative, supportive, ordinary projects and overseas industrial cooperation parks. Different institutional and cultural sensitivity can be observed for each type of project. The preliminary theorization proposed in this paper may offer a potential framework for further research on the BRI.
WOS关键词	FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT ; SOUTHEAST-ASIA ; CHINA BELT ; VIEW ; INTERNATIONALIZATION ; GLOBALIZATION ; GEOPOLITICS ; GEOGRAPHY ; STRATEGY ; ECONOMY
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography
语种	英语
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
WOS记录号	WOS:000668178500001
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/163843]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Liu Weidong
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Reg Sustainable Dev Modeling, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Resources & Environm, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu Weidong,Yao Qiuhui. Theorizing Belt and Road construction mode from institutional and cultural perspectives[J]. JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,2021,31(5):623-640.
APA	Liu Weidong,&Yao Qiuhui.(2021).Theorizing Belt and Road construction mode from institutional and cultural perspectives.JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES,31(5),623-640.
MLA	Liu Weidong,et al."Theorizing Belt and Road construction mode from institutional and cultural perspectives".JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES 31.5(2021):623-640.