Purpose – No previous research has considered the changing agglomeration effect of foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses China as the object of study and examines the centripetal and...

Purpose – No previous research has considered the changing agglomeration effect of foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap in the literature. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses China as the object of study and examines the centripetal and...

Differences in information between senders and receivers can result in inefficiency due to adverse selection or moral hazard. Therefore, one critical issue of organization design is how to induce truth-telling from the informed but biased agent by restructuring organizational forms. This study...

How to soften resistance to state-building efforts by reform losers? This paper highlights the strategy of compensation via the bureaucracy, in which the ruler offers meaningful government offices in exchange for elites’ acceptance of state-building reforms. We empirically explore this...

A long intellectual tradition starting with Max Weber views an ideal bureaucracy as a completely rule-based system. However, the net effect of discretionary appointment compared with a rule-based approach is theoretically ambiguous. Exploiting a unique setting in China’s imperial bureaucracy,...