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Governing Corporate Tax Management

The Role of State Ownership, Institutions and Markets in China

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Provides insights into a key area of corporate tax management and its impact on firm performance and corruption
  • Elaborates on the unique characteristics of China’s economy and its corporate sector, including firms listed at the central, provincial and municipal levels
  • China's pervasiveness of corruption and the lack of institutions are put in their proper contexts and shown to be incorrect

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Introduction

    • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong
    Pages 1-18
  3. Corporate Tax Management and Chinese Enterprises

    • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong
    Pages 19-44
  4. Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

    • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong
    Pages 45-67
  5. Economic Reforms and Market Outcomes over Time

    • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong
    Pages 69-107
  6. Corruption, Institutions, and Markets

    • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong
    Pages 109-140
  7. Conclusions

    • Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong
    Pages 141-151
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 153-186

About this book

This book focuses on corporate sector development in the context of transition economies, such as China. In doing so, the book uses quantitative methods to test several hypotheses that are salient to the Chinese economic situation.


Topics covered in the book include the relationship between tax management and firm performance, the extent to which a short-term focus on tax management can lead to long-term vulnerabilities, the impact of government ownership on tax management impact, and the link between the co-evolution of marketization and corruption, and institutional change and tax management.


With that the book offers rich empirical evidence to examine tax management, firm performance and corruption in a broad context, while permitting comparison between the Chinese experience and the market economies.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Belt and Road, Business School, Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

    Chen Zhang

  • Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Rajah Rasiah

  • Institute of China Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

    Kee Cheok Cheong

About the authors

Chen Zhang obtained her doctorate from the Institute of Graduate Studies, University of Malaya in 2017. She is currently Assistant Professor at Qingdao University, China.


Rajah Rasiah obtained his doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University in 1992. He is the 2014 recipient of the Celso Furtado Prize from the World Academy of Sciences for advancing the frontiers of Social Science (Economics). He is currently Distinguished Professor of Economics at University of Malaya, Malaysia.


Kee Cheok Cheong obtained his doctorate in Economics from the London School of Economics in 1972. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of China Studies, and Senior Advisor, Asia Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia. 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Governing Corporate Tax Management

  • Book Subtitle: The Role of State Ownership, Institutions and Markets in China

  • Authors: Chen Zhang, Rajah Rasiah, Kee Cheok Cheong

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9829-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9828-5Published: 17 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9831-5Published: 17 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9829-2Published: 04 October 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 186

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Financial Law/Fiscal Law, Business Taxation/Tax Law, Asian Business, Asian Economics

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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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Hardcover Book USD 119.99
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