Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow impacts on regional innovation efficiency in China and whether the impacts of FDI are contingent on regional conditions that may maximize the effect of FDI on regional innovation efficiency....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the evolution of policies and practices of innovation in China for the past 40 years. Design/methodology/approach: This is a review paper. It adopts a different multi-dimensional, qualitative methodology to examine China’s trajectory of...

Purpose: This is a special issue of Chinese Management Studies and this study aims to engage with debates on innovation in China and to provide new insights for innovation research in the context of China, seeking to develop a greater understanding of the concept of “innovation with Chinese...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether fiscal decentralization has impacts on city innovation level and to examine the moderating effects of the preference for government innovation in China. Design/methodology/approach: Using a panel data of China’s 278 cities from 2003 to...