The Governance Structures of Chinese Firms

Liao, Chun is a professor of economics at Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce in Shanghai, China. She holds a PhD in Economic Sociology (the research field of firms’ governance structures, business systems and innovation systems) from Free University, Berlin. She has published more than 40 articles on Chinese business, economics, and policy, in such journals as Finance and Trade Economy and China Economists, and is coauthor of Knowledge-Based Economy and Economic Globalization (Guangdong Tourism Press, 1999).