At the end of the 1980s, a tri-polar world comprising the US, EU and Japan emerged. However, the economic turbulence of the early 21st century has destabilized this order, and the rise of other Asian powers has implications for the formation of a new economic configuration. This book discusses...

Some have predicted that the next ‘Big N' international firm could be a Chinese CPA firm. Our primary research motivation has been to explore how far this view is shared and whether it is realistic to suppose that one or more Chinese firms, however large they may grow domestically, or even as...