September 2003

The Chinese Company

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Over the past decade, much of China’s state-run economy has been corporatized. Thousands of new entrepreneurial companies have emerged, some with substantial state ownership and some with largely or wholly private ownership.

This vast transformation has created a confused landscape of corporate entities, some of which behave like companies in the traditional sense and many of which do not. In a special issue focused solely on China’s companies, CEQ aims at making sense of a fast-changing picture.