Table of Contents

Contents:

Preface

1. Going Public Without the Public: Between Political Governance and Corporate Governance
Sonja Opper

2. Institutional Change, Diversity and Competition: Foreign Banks in Shanghai, 1847–2004
Jeroen Kuilman

3. Foreign Firms in China: Success by Strategic Choices
Xueyuan Zhang and Patrick Reinmoeller

4. The New Great Leap: The Rise of China’s ICT Industry
Mark Joannes Greeven

5. Enterprise Ground Zero in China
Barbara Krug

6. China’s Emerging Tax Regime: Local Tax Farming and Central Tax Bureaucracy
Ze Zhu and Barbara Krug

7. Narratives of Change: Culture and Local Economic Development
David S.G. Goodman

8. Networks as Business Networks
Hans Hendrischke

9. Whom are we Dealing With? Shifting Organisational Forms in China’s Business Sector
Barbara Krug and Jeroen Kuilman

Index

About the Author

Edited by Barbara Krug, Professor of Economics of Governance, Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and Guest Professor, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Hans Hendrischke, University of Sydney, Australia

Reviews

'A creative and wide-ranging collection on enterprise and businessbehavior in today's China. Using sociological and historical as well as economic analysis, the individual chapters provide insights intodifferent aspects of China's transitional economy as it continues toundergo dynamic change. Recommended for academics and practitionersinterested in the forms and dynamics of Chinese business behavior.'- Frederick C. Teiwes, The University of Sydney, Australia