hypothesize that in China state linkages may lengthen decision horizons and enable firms to benefit from introducing management …This study presents evidence that structured management practices and their relationship to productivity can vary with … a firm's external institutional linkages. Combining ideas from new institutionalism with the empirical management …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

Control and trust are recurring themes in the analysis of the management of International Joint Ventures (IJVs). Both … China carried out in 2000/01. Using Cluster-Analysis two JV types are derived, which allow for some first yet tentative …

In the early 1990s, the United States began to run a significant trade deficit with China due to the dual forces of … greater trade liberalization and China’s transition from a command economy towards a market economy. Proponents of free trade … with China argue that greater integration will lead to a convergence of interests that reaches beyond economics. Despite …