" Over the past decade, Carothers has established himself as the leading US expert on
democracy promotion. He is a powerful critic not only of the nuts-and-bolts of democracy …

This article will offer a first attempt to understand the legal transplant process through the
tool of a sociological typology. Legal transplants, the movement of laws and legal institutions …

The comparative study of transplants and receptions investigates contacts of legal cultures
and explores the complex patterns of change triggered by them. While transplants and …

TABLES 1.1 Per capita incomes in selected Asian countries, 1950–98 5 1.2 Per capita
income in Viet Nam, 1950–98 5 2.1 Biodiversity in Viet Nam 13 2.2 Key rural indicators in …

This paper empirically documents the continued importance of the legal families (common
law and civil law) for the diffusion of formal legal materials from the core to the periphery …

This study examines the impact of chief executive officer (CEO) duality (a chief executive
operating chair of board and leader of a firm) of newly privatized Vietnamese firms on the …

Until recently the development of franchising in Vietnam was hampered by a regulatory
framework that did not recognize franchising as a discrete business relationship. The …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors affecting the choice between
joint ventures and non‐equity alliances, when firms enter foreign markets …

As the pace of legal harmonization in developing East Asian states increases to comply with
international trading treaties, a disjunction is forming between legislative expectations and …

The law of China and Vietnam has been often ignored or marginalized in mainstream
scholarship of comparative law. This is due to three orientalist assumptions, namely: nihilism …