In China, many successful private-firm entrepreneurs hold representational appointments in
political councils such as the People's Congress (PC) or People's Political Consultative …

In this study, we combine the persistent and progressive perspectives of institutional theory
with corporate governance to explore the contingency value of political capital on bank loan …

This study examines the impact of venture capitalists'(VC) political connections on their
portfolio companies. Specifically, we use a manually-collected dataset of VCs' political …

This article, the product of several years of extensive fieldwork, seeks to reinvigorate the
debate on China's private entrepreneurs by arguing that they have become a “strategic …

Drawing on survey data from 150 small and medium-sized Chinese enterprises, this article
examines whether the political participation of entrepreneurs and other members of the firm …

Which industry sectors bribe the government and, in turn, are exploited by the government
the most in China? Or, as commonly satirized by the people, which sectors pay the most …

This article examines the rise of celebrity politics in mainland China. It outlines some
typologies of Western celebrity politics and considers whether equivalent forms exist in …

China scholars have consistently described China's private entrepreneurs as politically co-
opted by the Communist Party regime. Since China's economic development now …

We test for the relative importance of guanxi ('connections') as a catalyst for
entrepreneurship in urban China using survey data from five cities for the period 1996 …

The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) system is a curious
institution: often ridiculed as a decorative “flower vase” for the one-Party regime, or, at best, a …