Dragon Suit: The Golden Age of Expatriate Executives In China

Worldwide business leaders who try to comprehend China’s unavoidable affect on their livelihoods continuously ignore a very powerful voices: those of expatriate managers with years of experience in the country. Based on interviews with China-based corporate executives over five years, Dragon Suit brings to life the country’s swarming cities, latest economic tsunami, unstoppable middle class, endemic pollution, intermittent web, confusing culture, and endless opportunities.

This book is a rare insight into the way global firms choose, relocate, manage, motivate, and reward top managers on the earth’s most populous market. CEOs, C-suite executives, and senior managers recall their careers since China’s early 2000s reform period until a notable 2014 policy paper declared “the end of a golden age for foreign business in China”, and beyond to the present day.

Dragon Suit addresses a very powerful questions for international business:

• How did China turn out to be a key market for global firms?
• Why are most foreign managers unprepared for its challenges?
• Why did the country’s near-million foreigners begin to leave in the mid-2010s, and who will replace them?
• Most importantly, how can managers, entrepreneurs, experts, and students prepare for an increasingly more China-facing future in business?