This book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of the causes and consequences of changing business-government relations in China since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the country's increased integration with the global political economy. More specifically, it provides an interdisciplinary account of how the dominant patterns of interactions between state actors, firms and business organizations have changed across regions and industries, and how the changing varieties of these patterns have interacted with the evolution of key market institutions in China. The contributors to this edited volume posit that business-government relations comprise a key linchpin that defines the Chinese political economy and calibrates the character of its constitutive institutional arrangements.

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Xiaoke Zhang is ****Professor at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. His major research interests are in political economy and comparative management, with a regional focus on East Asia.
Tianbiao Zhu is Professor and Executive Dean at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at Zhejiang University, China. His research centers around the disciplines of International and Comparative Politics, International and Comparative Political Economy, and the Political Economy of Development.

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Chapter 1. Understanding BusinessGovernment Relations in China: Changes, Causes and Consequences.- Chapter 2. BusinessState Relations in China's Changing Economic Order.- Chapter 3. The Evolution of GovernmentMNC Relations in China: The Case of the Automotive Sector.- Chapter 4. Regional Business Associations in China: Changes and Continuities .- Chapter 5. Trapped into Collusion: The Under-Institutionalized Taxation System and Local BusinessState Relations in China.- Chapter 6. Chinese Private Entrepreneurs' Formal Political Connections: Industrial and Geographical Distribution.- Chapter 7. International Context and China's BusinessGovernment Relations.- Chapter 8. BusinessGovernment Relations and Corporate Governance Reforms.- Chapter 9. The Changing BusinessState Relations in China: The View from Socialist Corporatism.- Chapter 10. State Structures, BusinessState Relations and Multinational Corporate Behaviours: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies.- Chapter 11. BusinessState Interactions and Technology Development Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Metropolises.- Chapter 12. Conclusions and Reflections.