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...

A monolayer of spherical non-magnetic inclusions in a paramagnetic fluid is known to crystallize in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. It is shown, as a function of increasing layer thickness, that an initially stable 2D triangular monolayer becomes unstable with respect to a...

In this article, we consider Human Resource Development (HRD) in the People's Republic and analyze the value of an MBA in a transitional economy. MBA education is growing rapidly in China, while at the same time business schools in America are facing declining applications and mounting...

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...

Book Review

Book Review

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...