Cover -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Research on Chinese school of modern GUANLI science -- Critical management issues in China's socio-economic transformation -- Cost-benefit analysis for regenerative energy storage in metro -- Environmental risk perception and its influence on well-being --...

Purpose This paper aims to introduce ten studies included in this themed issue that illustrate from multifaceted angles some critical management issues and context-specific challenges on strategy and innovation facing the State and enterprises during China’s socio-economic transition. Instead...

Purpose The purpose of this article is to put forward China’s Hanyu Pinyin word guanli as an academic basic term to the world. Design/methodology/approach GUANLI as an academic basic term, which holds multiple meanings of several English words, such as management, administration, governance,...

Purpose China has become the world’s largest vehicle market, because of the strong governmental support to boost car sales and particularly because of the establishment of joint ventures between state-owned enterprises and world-class automakers. However, because many Sino-foreign joint...