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5 - The Emergence and Evolution of Chinese Business Groups: Are Pyramidal Groups Forming?

from Section II - Outcomes and Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

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Dylan Sutherland  and
Lutao Ning
Edited by
Barry Naughton  and
Kellee S. Tsai
Barry Naughton
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
Kellee S. Tsai
Affiliation:
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
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State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle , pp. 102 - 153
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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