• ISBN13: 9780333801192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Springer
• Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
• Publication Date: August 21, 2001
• Pages: 1092
• Original Price: EUR 149.99
• Language: English
• Edition: 2001
• Item Weight: 1658 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Industries / General, Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, and International / Economics & Trade

China has used industrial policies to try to build large corporations that can challenge those based in more advanced countries. By the late 1990s the operational mechanism of China's large firms had seen large advances. Simultaneously, a revolution has taken place in global business systems, and China's large firms are even further behind the global leaders than when they began their reforms. The WTO will require China to operate rapidly on the 'global playing field' in competition with the world's leading corporations, and this increased gap presents a deep challenge for China's business and political leaders. Peter Nolan presents here the first in-depth case studies of China's large corporations under economic reform, combined with systematic benchmarking of these firms against the world's leading corporations. The book is an unrivalled resource of information on Chinese businesses, and also leads the reader to consider the impact of China's response to its current challenges not only on China itself, but on the wider global economy.

PETER NOLAN is Sinyi Professor at the Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the China Big Business Programme. This programme is built around in-depth case studies benchmarking large Chinese corporations against their global counterparts. Senior managers of leading global corporations and their Chinese counterparts, as well as senior government officials meet regularly using these case studies as the basis for the exchange of ideas on the development strategies of their respective businesses.