As the State relinquishes its role as coordinator of interorganizational asset transfers, how do interdendent suppliers and users of complementary assets find each other and manage transactions for these assets? This study compares the emerging market structure of two different types of...

This paper investigates the institutional and organizational sources of change and persistence in the technological systems which bring new products to market in the Chinese pharmaceutical industry. Even after fifteen years of economic reforms, research institutes, manufacturers and wholesalers...

Does a firm engage in a joint venture with a technologically advanced foreign partner to complement or substitute investments in its own technological capabilities? We address this question in a comparative study of 222 Chinese pharmaceutical manufacturers and Sino-foreign joint ventures. A...

What factors influence a state-owned enterprise in a transition economy to choose between alternative technology acquisition strategies? This study uses two frameworks developed in the context of industrialized economies -transition costs economics and organizational capacities-to propose...

If market economy are to work, they need institutions of economic governance. In traditional economics, there seems universal agreement that the framework of contract law provided by the government is a necessary condition for a market economy to work. Recently, the complementary relationship...

Purpose – This paper aims to consolidate prior research from policy and management domains to identify stages in China's technological learning within the imitation paradigm during 1949‐2001, focusing on changes in the government's strategic priorities and policies and the nature, mode and...