June 19th 2007

What must Australian enterprises know to forge rewarding partnerships with Chinese companies? How can they achieve flexibility and adaptability to work with a growing number of Chinese companies actively seeking interests in the west? This free public lecture maps the complexity of Chinese corporate life where individual companies often have cultural and political landscapes as complex and unique as that of modern China itself.

Introduced by
Professor David Goodman, UTS Deputy Vice-Chancellor International

Colin Hawes
Born in the United Kingdom, UTS Law lecturer Dr Colin Hawes has a degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Durham and a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He began research in Chinese and East Asian law while teaching Chinese language and culture at the University of Alberta, Canada, then returned to UBC to complete a degree in law. Colin’s specialty is the intersection of legal reform and culture and what happens to laws when imported into new cultural contexts. His research focuses on transformation in Chinese corporate culture, Chinese corporate governance and banking reforms, and judicial reform in China.

Resources

• flyer (PDF 116k)
• presentation slides (PDF 1 MB)
• talk
• audio recording (MP3 22.7 MB)

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