Transition from administrative to economic model of corporate governance: A new analytical framework for the research on China's corporate governance
Abstract
Purpose
This paper makes the first attempt to provide a new analytical framework for research on the evolution of China's corporate governance models. The purpose of this paper is to investigate developmental corporate governance mechanisms in China the over past decades from a synthetic and dynamic analytical viewpoint.
Design/methodology/approach
This is a conceptual paper.
Findings
The evolution of corporate governance from an administrative to an economic model in China was not a smooth process and was confronted with various unavoidable institutional and ideological obstacles. Consequently, the transition of governance models has demonstrated the following four salient characteristics: gradualism, dualism, systematization and path dependency.
Originality/value
This paper makes the first attempt to provide a new analytical framework for research on the evolution of China's corporate governance models.
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Citation
Li, W. and Yan, D. (2013), "Transition from administrative to economic model of corporate governance: A new analytical framework for the research on China's corporate governance", Nankai Business Review International, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 4-8. https://doi.org/10.1108/20408741311303841
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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