Corporate Governance in China: A Lack of Critical Reflexivity?

Abstract

Recent spectacular collapses globally have sparked renewed public interest in corporate governance and the pursuit of a new global model. The prevailing dominance of an American model has overshadowed constructive attempts to derive a model that is more appropriate for ‘non-western’ and developing countries. In this paper, I examine the discourse of corporate governance in China. I argue that rather than being a mere captive of the American model, it could have crafted and developed an alternate and more appropriate model that takes into account the economic and social needs of China instead of a corporate governance model developed for other countries.

Citation

Wong, L. (2005), "Corporate Governance in China: A Lack of Critical Reflexivity?", Lehman, C.R., Tinker, T., Merino, B. and Neimark, M. (Ed.) Corporate Governance: Does Any Size Fit? (Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 117-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1041-7060(05)11006-2