The paper offers a frame for investigating the extent to which decentralisation, and subsequent locally chosen institutions shape private organisational and institutional innovation. To include the numerous locally based ldquo;economic regimesrdquo; matters as the resulting business system...

We advance a conceptual frame for explaining economic transformation in China that combines a dynamic and a comparative perspective by taking the analysis of Fiscal Federalism one step further. Using insights from the comparative business systems literature we show that devolution of power at...

We start our exploration of China's institutional change by asking what the China experience can tell us about institutional economics and organization theory. We point to under-researched areas such as the formation of firms and the interplay between firms and local politics. Our findings...

This paper attempts to explain how institutions in the reform era of China have evolved by looking into the FDI policies and regulations. As history matters, we don t look solely into the previous direct stage to the reform era, and rather look into a longer history starting from prior to the...

Going public without the public: between political governance and corporate governance / Sonja Opper -- Institutional change, diversity and competition: foreign banks in Shanghai, 1847-2004 / Jeroen Kuilman -- Foreign firms in China: success by strategic choices / Xueyuan Zhang and Patrick...