The contributions to this symposium on 'Demystifying Chinese Management' have attempted to tackle new strategic issues and challenges <italic>vis-à-vis</italic> the newly diversified ownership and management system which has occurred since Deng's economic reforms. It is clear that when we try to 'make sense' of...

The Chinese economy has dramatically changed in its nature over the last three decades or so. It has moved from being a command economy into market socialist system over the period and has morphed from an economy dominated by state-owned enterprises to an economy with a wide range of ownership...

The conclusions presented here sum up the contributions in the <italic>Special Issue</italic> regarding the managing of China's energy sector, particularly regarding the demand and profile of energy as well as the marketization of the sector. Strategic, organizational and policy issues relevant to the main theme...

As China has now become the largest energy consumer in the world, its energy sector has understandably huge domestic and global implications. In this <italic>Special Issue</italic>, which is an interdisciplinary one, comprising a set of eight in-depth empirical studies by leading international experts in the...

In this Epilogue to the Symposium, we look at the conclusions we can draw from our <italic>tour d'horizon</italic> of managers, markets and the globalized economy in the People's Republic of China. We have seen that, since the late 1970s, industrial ownership has significantly opened-up and become more...