In China industrial clusters consisting of small and medium enterprises have been proliferating in areas where private sectors have successfully developed. This study enquires into the process of forming a new industrial cluster and the roles of local and distant urban traders in the garment...

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...

Despite its utmost importance, the issue of industrial development has been largely neglected in the literature for the last few decades. The authors have conducted comparative case studies between Chinese and Japanese industries.