Chandos Publishing The Strategies of China's Firms: Resolving Dilemmas

This book aims to analyze how China's firms in the consumer electronics (CE) sector have developed their business strategy and corporate governance during the reform process. This book examines the CE sector in particular because it is one of the country's most important and dynamic manufacturing sectors and one of the earliest market-oriented sectors. * focuses on firms with different ownership* provides cases that offer insights into the interactions among key factors of environmental changes, exploitative and explorative strategies, and performance in a transition environment* explains why the strategies of some firms do not fit with their environments, which leads to their poorer competitive position.* compares the corporate governance of the China's firms with different ownership* explores the different ways of development of China's firms in the consumer electronics sector from the perspectives of business strategy and corporate governance * includes some wider policy-related implications related to the reform of China's firms Review The Strategies of China’s Firms focuses attention on a variety of firm-level arguments. Based on the in-depth investigation of strategies of China’s firms, the book specifically examines the primary drivers of China’s firm growth, analyzes the capability of China’s firms to sustain their growth and strives to address the long-term effects of the growth of China’s firm growth on the global economy. About the Author Hailan Yang teaches at the Business School, Shandong Jianzhu University in China. She gained her PhD Degree in International Business from the Management and Marketing Department of Melbourne University. She also has a BA in International Economics from Shandong Finance University and a MA in Political Economics from Shandong University of China. Her research focuses on the impact of cultural, social and economic changes on China's companies. Over past 10 years she has been involved in many projects including research on diversification of China's companies and the reform of Chinese state-owned enterprises. Based on her research experience in China, UK and Australia, she has not only gained a deep insight into Chinese companies, but also into the differences and similarities between enterprises in China and Western companies. She acted as a trainer in the Global Business Strategy Company in Melbourne from 2005 to 2007. She developed a new workshop entitled 'The State of Corporate Governance in China'. As a trainer with Global Business Strategies, she provided regional briefings and business orientation and negotiating workshops on China for clients doing business in China. She specialized in providing the company executives in Australia with a deeper insight into Chinese companies and their internal mechanisms. Stephen L. Morgan is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China, and Professor of Chinese Economic History in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (SCCS) at the University of Nottingham, UK. He joined the SCCS at Nottingham in September 2007 after 13 years at the University of Melbourne where he was as lecture and laster senior lecturer in Asian economic history. He has more than 30 years of experience studying and writing about China. In an earlier life, he was a journalist with, among others, the Standard Newspapers in Melbourne, a China-based contributor to the South China Morning Post, the chief correspondent of the Hong Kong Standard, as well as the assistant political and business editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. His primary research lies in the fields of economic and business history from the 18th to the 20th centuries of China, while mostly teaching graduate and undergraduate programmes in international business and strategic management. Ying Wang engages in teaching and research in the area of real estate and economics at School of Management of Xi'an Univ