"China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of "reform and opening up" put into place since the late 1970s. China's industrial policies have nurtured a large group of firms with high profits and a high market capitalisation. However, few people in the West can...

1. China and the World Trade Organization : the challenge for China's large-scale industry / Peter Nolan -- 2. Technical change and firm-level catch-up in developing countries : the case of telecommunications / Peter Nolan And Jin Zhang -- 3. Globalization and industrial concentration : the...

The global business revolution since the 1980s has witnessed an unprecedented degree of industrial consolidation and concentration of business power at a global level. Firms with powerful, globally recognised technologies and/or brands constitute the systems integrators at the apex of extended...