Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China

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.

• Chapter 1. Understanding Business–Government Relations in China: Changes, Causes and Consequences.- Chapter 2. Business–State Relations in China’s Changing Economic Order.- Chapter 3. The Evolution of Government–MNC Relations in China: The Case of the Automotive Sector.- Chapter 4. Regional Business Associations in China: Changes and Continuities .- Chapter 5. Trapped into Collusion: The Under-Institutionalized Taxation System and Local Business–State Relations in China.- Chapter 6. Chinese Private Entrepreneurs’ Formal Political Connections: Industrial and Geographical Distribution.- Chapter 7. International Context and China’s Business–Government Relations.- Chapter 8. Business–Government Relations and Corporate Governance Reforms.- Chapter 9. The Changing Business–State Relations in China: The View from Socialist Corporatism.- Chapter 10. State Structures, Business–State Relations and Multinational Corporate Behaviours: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies.- Chapter 11. Business–State Interactions and Technology Development Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Metropolises.- Chapter 12. Conclusions and Reflections.