Chinese Business Groups The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relations During Economic Deve... Book

	Acknowledgements
	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	Preface
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
	The Proliferation of Business Groups in China	8
	Business Groups and Firms	13
Ch. 2	Beyond the Firm: Business Groups and Their Significance	25
	What is a Business Group?	26
	Business Groups and Other Corporate Groups	30
	Variations in Business Group Structure	31
	Accounting for Variations in Business Group Structure	40
	Business Groups, Firms, and Economic Change: The Formation of Business Groups	41
Ch. 3	The Emergence of Chinese Business Groups	50
	Economic and Industrial Reform: An Overview	51
	Industrial Reform and the Emergence of Business Groups	63
	Business Groups in the Early Stages of Development	68
Ch. 4	The Structure of Chinese Business Groups	81
	The Organization of Business Groups	82
	Key Players in the Business Group	95
	Relations Among Firms	102
	Chinese Business Groups and Foreign Firms	106
Ch. 5	The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relations	113
	The Structure of Economic Exchange	114
	Structural Traits and Firm Performance	121
Ch. 6	A View from within the Groups	134
	The National Airline Group	135
	SEMC	141
	The Role of Interlocking Directorates	144
	The Finance Company	146
	From the Firm's Perspective: The Case of LEC	148
Ch. 7	The Structure of Exchange in China's Largest Groups	154
	Dyadic Exchange Relations	155
	Measuring Exchange in Chinese Business Groups	157
	Equation Specification and Estimation	158
	The Basic Structure of Exchange	163
	Uncertainty, Power, and the Structure of Exchange	166
	Social Ties and the Structure of Exchange	168
Ch. 8	Group Structure and Firm Performance during China's Economic Development	171
	Firm Performance during Economic Development	171
	An Empirical Test of the Structure-Performance Relationship	174
	The Density of Exchange Relations and Firm Performance	179
	Director Interlocks and Performance	181
	Chasing Funds: The Importance of a Finance Company	186
	Innovation and the Firm: The Role of the Research and Development Company	190
Ch. 9	Business Groups and the Chinese Economy	192
	Key Research Findings	194
	The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relations	197
App. A	Data Sources and Collection	199
App. B	Geographic Locations of Research Sites	201
	References	203
	Index	215