The Interpersonal Challenges of BRI: Developing People-to-People Bonds

Abstract

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), carries extensive financial and geopolitical risks, claims to abide by inclusiveness and transparency between participating nations. Linking to BRI partners’ absorptive capacity, national culture, human capital, management approaches, and language differences, we address some of the major challenges that can threaten the success of the BRI. Explaining the need of establishing strong people-to-people bonds so knowledge can be shared among participants, our analysis will lead us to suggest that a shared culture of operations embedding shared knowledge management practices is necessary to ease interpersonal tensions and strengthen people-to-people bonds. We provide four multi-level policy solutions to facilitate fair cooperation for BRI participating nations.