The authors point out that the goal of economic reform in China is to transform the socialist planned economy into a socialist market economy. According to the Chinese perspective, socialism is characterized by public ownership while a market economy is characterized by resource disposition with...

This article examines the creation of industrial enterprises and the basic models of firm-level technological learning behaviour of the last 20 years in China. Six case studies of technological learning and links to external sources of know-how from the South of China in the Pearl River Delta...