A New Scramble for African Oil? Historical, Political, and Business Perspectives

By J. Frynas, M. Paulo. 2007

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What determines Chinese outward FDI (2012, background): “Frynas and Paolo (2007) see this as a primary motive for China’s involvement in Africa.”
Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries (2019, background): “continent, coupled with its weak institutional structures (Frynas and Paulo, 2007; Kolk and Lenfant, 2010 Adams et al. 2017; Adams et al. 2018), this paper asserts that Africa is a ‘cautious continent’; it is important to be cautious in being optimistic about predicting its future growth prospects a”
Better the Devil You Know? Chinese Foreign Direct Investment in Africa (2011, background): “Given the nature of Chinese investment activities in Sudan and in other resource-rich African countries, it seems fairly obvious that Chinese investment in Africa is resource seeking, and a number of studies have suggested that this is a primary motive for Chinese involvement in Africa (Frynas & Pao”