Does an increase in the quantity of legal rules influence the overall quality of the formal institution to which they belong? In this article, we draw upon a longitudinal analysis of the People's Republic of China's Enterprise Bankruptcy Law in order to answer this question. We aim to examine...

The purpose of the paper is to assess the current state of network research in China's business system. Research on networks has developed significantly during the last decades in regards to analytic techniques, number of research projects, and accumulated findings. While research on networks in...

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...