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China’s investment in Ethiopia began in the late 90s, and it had a relatively smallscale at the initial phase. State-owned enterprises played a dominant role in tradingand investing in Ethiopia during this period, yet the majority remained at a small standstill. It is due to the small number and scale of Chinese-owned enterprises thattended to invest in Ethiopia in a spontaneous and disordered manner. However, thepast decades witnessed an unprecedented wave of investment in Ethiopia fromChinese-owned enterprises with expanded scales, more extensive fields anddiversified ways. In 2011, China became both the largest import and largest exporttrading partner of Ethiopia. Similarly, China’s investment in Ethiopia has grownsteadily. According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, FDI from China to Ethiopiaincreased from virtually zero in 2004 to an aggregate amount of US$4.8 billion in2018. Nowadays, there are over 400 Chinese-owned enterprises in Ethiopia.Approximately 45 percent of Chinese-owned enterprises engaged in manufacturingand their local market share reached 30%. On the other hand, Ethiopia hasexperienced steady and broad-based real economic growth of around 10.6 percent onaverage since 2004, which can be partly attributed to the investment of Chinese-owned enterprises(Zhang&He, 2019). With the deepening of China’s reform andopening-up policy, Chinese-owned enterprises have increased foreign investment, andthus become an important source in the international capital market. Ethiopia’sOriental Industrial Park is an industrial park built by Chinese-owned enterprises in Ethiopia.

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1.2 Research idea and research methods

1.2.1 Research idea

Based on the literature reviews and interviews about real circumstances of Huajian(Ethiopia), as a combination of a questionnaire survey on its staff, this thesis is aimed at identifying and tackling cross-cultural conflicts of case enterprise. It thus has thepotential to optimize cross-cultural conflict management.

The research idea is shown in Figure 1-1. This thesis starts with the problemstatement. Three research questions to be solved are : 1) What are the current culturalconflicts and existing problems of cross-cultural conflict management of Huajian(Ethiopia)? 2) What reasons could be attributed to the cultural conflicts ofHuajian(Ethiopia)? 3) What approaches could be proposed to deal with culturalconflicts and cross-cultural conflict management problems?

In order to answer the above questions, the thesis conducts a semi-structuralinterview and a questionnaire survey. A semi-construct interview is made to examinethe process of cross-cultural conflict management of case enterprise, which also laysthe foundation for the design of questionnaire. Next follows quantitative analysis via aquestionnaire survey. The questionnaire makes a reference for Denison’sorganizational cultural theory to measure cross-cultural conflicts of the case enterprise.Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory is then applied to analyze the causes of theconflicts. In dealing with specif本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。