1st Edition

Global Big Business and the Chinese Brewing Industry

By Yuantao Guo Copyright 2007
240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

From the 1970s to the 1990s, China implemented a wide array of industrial policies to build up indigenous big business groups in their attempts to ‘catch-up’ with the industries of the developed world. With its entry into the WTO, China is under huge pressure to pursue the market-friendly policies advocated by the advanced economies. This is the first book in English that applies the... Read more

Introduction.  Methodological Issues.  Significance of the Book  1. Big Business and Competition   2. The Global Big Business Challenge and Catch-Up  3. State Intervention  4. The Global Brewing Industry  5. Industrial Policies on the Chinese Brewing Industry  6. The Chinese Brewing Industry  7. The Catch-Up of Tsingtao Brewery  8. The Catch-Up of Yanjing Brewery.  Conclusions

Biography

Yuantao Guo received a PhD from Judge Business School, Cambridge University, UK. She received her MPhil in Development Studies from the Land Economy Faculty at Cambridge, an MA in Economics from Peking University, Beijing, China, and a BA in Economics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China. She has also worked as an Equity Analyst for Goldman Sachs (based in Singapore) and J & A Securities Ltd (based in China). Her research interests include business economics, development studies, industrial policy, globalisation, and the beverage and consumer industries.