Chinese Management Studies: Volume 16 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Institutions, corporate governance and entrepreneurship: a research agenda for Chinese world-class enterprises

Shuanping Dai, Zheng Li, Jun Li

Building world-class enterprises though mixed-ownership reform: explaining performance differences in minority and majority state-owned enterprises

Hongwei Liao, Mingyue Li, Ari Van Assche, Jiaojiao Zheng, Liangping Yang

In the context of China’s efforts to build world-class enterprises through mixed-ownership reform, this study aims to build an agency theory framework to analyze the differential…

Engineer-centered enterprise and context-based knowledge: the sources of Chinese competitiveness in grid equipment

Qunhong Shen, Ziying Jiang, Kaidong Feng

The purpose of this study is to explore the competitive source of Chinese firms in an industrial sector of complex product systems. It helps to reveal the organizational…

Understanding Chinese automobile firms: past, present and path to be world class

Zheng Li, Tao Liu, Shuanping Dai

This paper aims to quest the strategies and paths of Chinese automobile firms for being world class. It analyzes their strengths and potentials in comparison with the development…

Does internationalization encourage state-owned enterprises to utilize subsidies to innovate? Evidence from high-tech and automobile manufacturing industries of Chinese listed companies

Yu Xie, Francis Boadu, Hongjuan Tang

Drawing on the resource-based view, institutional logic and isomorphic pressure theories, this study constructed a theoretical model to explore the correlations between government…

Cross-cultural competence and social capital dynamic process in cross-border M&A, a theoretical framework based on a multi-case study

Zhouyang Gu, Fanchen Meng

In the process of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the social capital of enterprises is dynamic. In this context, cross-cultural competence plays an important role and…

How does liability of origin influence cross-border acquisition completion? Evidence from Chinese firms

Tingting Jiang, Buyun Yang, Bo Yang, Bo Wu, Guoguang Wan

The environment of international business (IB) and the capabilities of emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) as well as their home countries have changed…

Managerial coaching behavior and subordinates’ learning effects in cross-cultural context: a moderated mediation study

Xiongying Niu, Baofang Zhang, Mulele Simasiku, Rui Zhang

This study aims to explore the effect of expatriate supervisors’ managerial coaching behavior on local subordinates’ learning effects through the mediating role of subordinates’…

Impact of corruption on Chinese investment in African countries

Shilin Yuan, Haiyang Chen, Wei Zhang

This paper aims to examine the impact of host country corruption on foreign direct investment (FDI) from China to developing countries in Africa. With the opposing arguments that…

Impact of entrepreneurial orientation on the performance of new ventures in China: the roles of entrepreneurial bricolage and opportunity recognition

Tiannv Ma, Siying Yang

This study aims to examine how entrepreneurial orientation affects new venture performance in a dynamic environment. The authors examine whether entrepreneurial bricolage and…

Towards a meaningful innovation paradigm: conceptual framework and practice of leading world-class enterprise

Luyao Wang, Guannan Qu, Jin Chen

The purpose of this study is to conceptualize the paradigm of meaningful innovation (MI) by exploring the theoretical basis, identifying its core concepts and key processes, and…