corporatism in the context of ongoing institutional changes in China as a transition economy. Specifically, I attempt to integrate … lies in China's dual-track reform paradigm (i.e. a market-for-mass track and a state-for-elite track). Lastly, I discuss …

We study China's township-village enterprises (TVES) from an organizational perspective with a focus on governance …

ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large panel of quarterly observations, we eliminate biases introduced by …

, Ownership, State Predation, Local Government, Multi-Task, China …Forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1998 <p> We develop a theory of the ownership of firms in an … environment without secure property rights against state encroachment. "Private ownership" leads to excessive revenue hiding and …

ownership-legal form categories of firms. By using a large panel of quarterly observations, we eliminate biases introduced by …

The rapid export growth of China's township-village enterprises (TVEs) has not been well understood and explained …. Using a simple analytical model and exploring a unique dataset on China's TVEs, we investigate the determinants of TVEs …

and/or managed by entrepreneurs or their families, while controlling for the potential effect of cultural norms. China … performance than non-family firms. We find that the positive effects of family ownership and the negative effects of family … control in excess of ownership that have been documented in earlier studies around the world are only significant in high …