One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978
policy of" reform and openness" will lead to political liberalization. This book challenges that …

Most theories that seek to explain democratization look to changes in the economy as the
precursor to significant political liberalization, locating the main causal factor in either severe …

The past twenty-five years of economic reform have seen the transformation of labor
relations in China, with the widespread adoption of capitalist labor practices by firms of all …

The available empirical literature tends to focus on the performance comparison between
business groups (BGs) and non-business groups, and there is no study that quantitatively …

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 …

An increasing number of Chinese companies are now taking the form of the business group.
The big business groups in China tend to have more state shares, be more heavily indebted …

In the dominant discourses on contemporary economic policy, in India and as well as
elsewhere, labour market reforms have acquired a centrality and labour market flexibility is …

By all accounts, China's economic growth in the recent years has been an astounding one.
However, one of the major issues of concern that has emerged in a context of very …

China's economy is now at a crossroads. After sustaining a very high and almost continuous
growth rate over the last two decades, it now seems to be subsiding and official statistics on …

This chapter 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 …