China's ‘Go Global' strategy has encouraged Chinese companies to seek to enhance China's resource security through acquisitions in foreign markets. Under the influence of this policy, Chinese companies have greatly increased outbound investment in recent years, and one consequence of this...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is part of an ambitious national strategy to promote the PRC's economic and foreign policies to help take a larger role in global affairs. This is being implemented through PRC-centred trading and investment in infrastructure projects of countries in Asia,...

The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock...

In recent years, China's ‘Go Global' policy has encouraged Chinese companies to go abroad to invest; inevitably this increased investment activity has generated a range of tensions and commercial disputes. The legal cultures that have shaped the mind-sets of parties to these commercial...

The Asian and world financial crisis of the late 1990s has shown the limits of governments as the sole or even the primary contributor to policy debates regarding the development of commercial law and economic development. Non-governmental scholarly and professional groups have an important...

This article discusses the extent to which rule of law principles have been embraced within the language, principles and practice of China’s Company Law. The paper discusses different understandings of the rule of law that are to be found in the wider literature. Whilst China has affirmed the...

Corporate governance reform is a major challenge facing Chinese firms trying to establish themselves in global markets. When they enter foreign markets, Chinese enterprises are likely to bring their pre-existing corporate governance practices with them. This paper examines how the corporate...

On the 6th January 2011, the European Commission's DG Internal Market and Services issued an ambitious consultation document, Technical Details of a Possible EU Framework for Bank Recovery and Resolution which elaborates further on its bank rescue proposals. This paper critically reviews these...

Much has been achieved in the development of Chinese corporate governance policies and practices over the last two decades. Researchers have explored the broad contours of this achievement, although corporate governance research in China is still at an early stage of development. Research has...