Purpose – The paper aims to investigate if the inflow of foreign direct investment to China is not a new phenomenon but … to China are not a new phenomenon. In the pre‐communist China, Western multinationals had been extremely active …

efficiency of the stock market of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. This study also investigates the presence of … IBrx‐50 for Brazil, RTSI for Russia, Nifty for India and CSI300 for China to represent the stock market of BRIC countries …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the determinants of bank performance in China. In particular, the … paper examines the effects of stock market volatility, competition and ownership on bank performance in China. Design …/implications – Further research should examine other methods (e.g. the Rosse‐Panzar H statistic) to calculate the bank competition in China …

effective tax rate. The People’s Republic of China provides an interesting environment to examine the corporate income tax … effective tax rates of all public firms in China from 1999 to 2009. Findings The authors report that effective tax rates do … provides insight into government ownership and taxation in China.  …

Purpose The paper aims to investigate the determinants of China’s daily intervention in the foreign exchange market …/methodology/approach The paper uses bivariate probit models to test whether China’s intervention decision is driven by three sets of factors … analyzing exchange rate volatility, this paper finds that intervention is used by the Chinese central bank to ensure that there …

Purpose – This paper aims to fill the academic gaps in the study of the new co‐operative movement in China and its …‐co‐operative perspective, the paper employs a historical approach to understand the co‐operative renaissance in China. Afterwards, the paper … the understanding of new co‐operative development in China.  …

Purpose – This paper seeks to address emerging practices of social enterprises (SEs) in China by exploring the … development of China's SEs. Neither primary nor secondary data sources collected for this paper can be used to draw any general … development of SEs in China, providing a descriptive and normative foundation for cross‐country comparative studies and …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand the emergence of new, multi‐stakeholder co‐operatives in China and …‐operatives found in China are increasingly caught in a “co‐operative trilemma” and an emerging public–private “welfare partnership … paper analyses and synthesizes the main findings from 20 cases investigated during fieldwork conducted in China. Data were …

enterprises (SEs) in China, a rarely studied topic of theoretical and practical importance. Design/methodology/approach – The … stakeholders (founders, board members, general managers and beneficiaries). Findings – Although SEs in China are registered in … stewardship and co-optation or stakeholder approach is becoming the predominant governance model among SEs in China. Research …