Bringing together a collection of interdisciplinary chapters on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI, or also known as One Belt One Road), this book offers a comprehensive overview of the topic from a business and management perspective. With contributions from scholars based in Asia, Europe and North America, Volume I provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in relation to BRI. Key areas covered include economics and finance, history, trade, value chain and human resource and cross-cultural management, creating a useful tool for academics, as well as policy-makers and practitioners in China and other countries along the new Silk Road.

1. Introduction: Diversity, Convergence and Opportunities along the Belt and Road; Jawad Syed and Yung-Hsiang Ying.- 2. BRI and the Effect of Trade and Financial Integration on Output Volatility; Choudhary Tanveer Shehzad.- 3. The Changing Asian Perception of China's Rising: A BRI Context; Zhenqing Zheng.- 4. From Central Asia to the World: China's Regional Diplomacy as a Precursor for Global Connectivity; Hasan H. Karrar.- 5. BRI: Connectivity, Trade, Investment and Politics in South Asia; Nazish Afraz and Hasaan Khawar.- 6. China's Investment in BRI Countries: An Industrial Perspective; Chris Y. Tung and Fang-I Wen.- 7. Strategic Change in the Dynamics of Regional and Global Financial Integration following the BRI; Abdul Wahid, Muhammad Zubair Mumtaz, Boris Kabylinskii and Fayqa Abdullah Ashkanani.- 8. The Interpersonal Challenges of BRI: Developing People-to-people Bonds; Isabel Rechberg and Shuojia Guo.- 9. The Chinese Vision of BRI and its Effects on Turkey andWest Asia; Mustafa Yildiran.- 10. China in Africa; Rabbiya Kamal and Omair Haroon.