China-Morocco Economic And Trade Cooperation’s Research

The contemporary growth of China is known by the desire to sophisticate its economy and climb up the value chain.Moreover,the ambition is to “become the leader among the world’s manufacturing powers’ ’.China’s involvement in Africa has steadily increased after its economic reform in 1978.However,since the year 2000,Sino-African trade volumes began to rise rapidly.In May 2016,the king of Morocco has visited China and agreed to establish a strategic partnership based on many agreements with the Chinese President Xi Jinping to be part of “the Belt and the Road in order to strengthen bilateral cooperation in all sectors(has been signed on January 2022).This thesis aims to understand the nature of the Sino-Moroccan business relationship.Hence,it is addressed through Sino-Moroccan companies in Morocco through the lenses of the social exchange theory.However,these companies are facing integration issues in Morocco.Thus,the research has one main research question “How is the relationship between Moroccan and Chinese firms?” that is divided into three sub-questions in order to reach the objective.Qualitative research design is used and data was collected from two different sources which are refereed articles and indepth interviews.While analyzing the data,coding and thematic analysis were used for the gathered interviews followed by Content Analysis to analyze the selected refereed articles.Through analyzed sourced documents,this dissertation investigates on the Chinese investment and trade in Africa(Morocco as a case study),following by how Sino-Moroccan government promote bilateral trade and foreign investment,then,understand Morocco’s contract Industrial Engineer to finish with the Chinese direct investments in Morocco.According to the results,Sino-Moroccan collaborating companies contain the three SET’s characteristics while they exchange goods or services,they build relationships and each party does it best under its competitors pressure.Also,companies proved their mutual dependence,exchange and benefits through SET’s factors proved examination.Also,the research extracted four themes that answers our main question and the objective of this research which are connection,Intercultural business communication,economic growth and Mutual-beneficially.Therefore,some Chinese companies are facing some integration issues due to intercultural business communication.Moreover,the nature of Sino-Moroccan business companies is a mutual-beneficial relation built under connections and intercultural business communication.Also,the interviewees affirmed that research’s methodology chosen(SET)is applied between companies for a healthy cooperation and to maximize the profits and minimize the costs.Limitations of this thesis revolves around the lack of researches and reliable information.Recommendations for further research suggest focusing on in-depth analysis with more Sino Moroccan companies that has been collaborating with each other,Chinese companies that are in Morocco and diplomats that are related to Sino Moroccan relations in order to better understand the nature of this relationship.Also,they could use a mixed method and focus the research on SinoMoroccan BRI initiative perspective too while Morocco and China have signed the BRI initiative project on January 2022.