Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Understanding Business–Government Relations in China: Changes, Causes and Consequences

      • Xiaoke Zhang, Tianbiao Zhu

      Pages 3-45

   3. State–Business Relations in China’s Changing Economic Order

      • Tak-Wing Ngo

      Pages 47-77

3. Changes and Variations in Business–Government Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. The Evolution of Government–MNC Relations in China: The Case of the Automotive Sector

      • Gregory T. Chin

      Pages 81-104

   3. Regional Business Associations in China: Changes and Continuities

      • Juanfeng Liu, Jianjun Zhang

      Pages 105-138

   4. Trapped into Collusion: The Under-Institutionalized Taxation System and Local Business–State Relations in China

      • Changdong Zhang

      Pages 139-163

   5. Chinese Private Entrepreneurs’ Formal Political Connections: Industrial and Geographical Distribution

      • Jiangnan Zhu, Yiping Wu

      Pages 165-193

   6. International Context and China’s Business–Government Relations

      • Tianbiao Zhu

      Pages 195-221

4. Institutional Consequences of Changing Business–Government Relations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Business–Government Relations and Corporate Governance Reforms

      • Richard W. Carney

      Pages 225-253

   3. The Changing Business–State Relations in China: The View from Socialist Corporatism

      • Yukyung Yeo

      Pages 255-279

   4. State Structures, Business–State Relations, and Multinational Corporate Behaviours: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies

      • Jin Zhang

      Pages 281-311

   5. Business–State Interactions and Technology Development Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Metropolises

      • Xiaoke Zhang

      Pages 313-340

   6. Conclusions and Reflections

      • Tianbiao Zhu, Xiaoke Zhang

      Pages 341-344

5. Back Matter

   Pages 345-359

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This book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of the causes and consequences of changing business–government relations in China since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the country’s increased integration with the global political economy. More specifically, it provides an interdisciplinary account of how the dominant patterns of interactions between state actors, firms and business organizations have changed across regions and industries, and how the changing varieties of these patterns have interacted with the evolution of key market institutions in China. The contributors to this edited volume posit that business–government relations comprise a key linchpin that defines the Chinese political economy and calibrates the character of its constitutive institutional arrangements. 

• International Political Economy
• China
• Business–State relations
• Chinese political economy
• Chinese business 'institutions'
• Socio-economic activity
• Cross-regional analyses
• Cross-sectoral analyses
• Chongqing
• Hunan
• Shanxi
• Zhejiang
• The open door policy
• Multinational Corporations

• Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  Xiaoke Zhang

• Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  Tianbiao Zhu

Xiaoke Zhang is Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. His major research interests are in political economy and comparative management, with a regional focus on East Asia.

Tianbiao Zhu is Professor and Executive Dean at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang University, China. His research centers around the disciplines of International and Comparative Politics, International and Comparative Political Economy, and the Political Economy of Development.

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