Going public without the public: between political governance and corporate governance / Sonja Opper -- Institutional change, diversity and competition: foreign banks in Shanghai, 1847-2004 / Jeroen Kuilman -- Foreign firms in China: success by strategic choices / Xueyuan Zhang and Patrick...

China's long-term economic success is driven by new firms, new sectors and new business practices. This book explores the establishment of new private firms and listed companies, the development of knowledge industries, in particular the IT and banking sectors and the co-evolution of public...

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have proliferated at a remarkable rate over the past decade, even as political controversy has surrounded them. Why? The extant literature depicts the process of SWF creation as driven by functional imperatives associated with “excess” revenue and reserves...