The success or failure of China's development will impact not only its own citizens but also
those of the world. China is widely recognized as a global actor on the world stage and no …

Much has been said about the re-emergence of China to its historical position of eminence
in the world economy, yet little is understood about the kind of economic system China is …

The Asian economic landscape is dominated by various types of business group. Asian
Business Groups provides a comprehensive review and introduction to the different types of …

This paper examines the status of boundaries in organizational theory. Tacitly if not
explicitly, most researchers view organizations as bounded, tightly coupled and more or less …

Il est encore difficile d'évaluer les conséquences humaines et économiques de la pollution
de l'air, de l'eau et des sols, de l'érosion et de la désertification, des pluies acides, de la …

Globalization—assisted by new information and communication technologies (ICTs)—is
believed to facilitate convergence to a market order. We examine this belief by …

China's public sector is under great transformation. Remoulding widely scattered firms into a
few gigantic corporate groups is actively being pursued by Beijing today in an effort to …

This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the basic models of firm-level
technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of …

This article investigates the peculiar and contradictory nature of the ongoing construction of
a system of corporate governance in China. The analysis attempts to overcome the limits of …

The study of economic behaviour comparatively between societies has been handicapped
by a weakness in the handling of societal 'context', and this arises from epistemological …