Research Summary: The economic center of gravity is shifting from mature markets to emerging regions. This shift provides a good opportunity to broaden and deepen our theoretical base of concepts and frameworks because emerging and mature regions differ significantly in their institutional...

The economic center of gravity is shifting from mature markets to emerging regions. This shift provides a good opportunity to broaden and deepen our theoretical base of concepts and frameworks because emerging and mature regions differ significantly in their institutional regimes. Hence...

While local government entrepreneurship has long been regarded as one of the main drivers of China's economic growth, it has increasingly been recognised as a potential source of a set of harmful policy consequences in recent years, such as rising government debt crises, pervasive corruption and...

While it is widely agreed that local governments played a critical role in infrastructure building and industrial development in China – as key factors in its “economic miracle” - the relationship between local government entrepreneurship and the development of specialized markets through...