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Western Bankers in China Institutional Change and Corporate Governance

By Jane Nolan Copyright 2019
166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

166 Pages
by Routledge

When China’s economic reforms were beginning, there was an expectation in the west that China’s financial markets would be opened to western banks and that China’s banks would be reformed along western lines. Joint ventures between Chinese banks and western banks, minority shareholding by western banks and the involvement of western banking personnel in assisting Chinese banks with their reforms... Read more
1. Introduction: Western bankers in China. 2. Understanding institutional and organisations change in Chinese contexts. 3. The variety of business systems in China's banking sector. 4. Western economic ideas and the historical development of Chinese banks. 5. Regulating the banking sector: conflict and control in enforcement regimes. 6. Western investors and corporate governance reforms in Chinese banks. 7. Networking strategies of Western bankers: power, opportunism and guanxi connections. 8. The 2008 financial crisis and trust between Chinese and Western bankers. 9. Conclusions and implications

Biography

Jane Nolan is an Associate Professor in Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour in the School of Business at the University of Nottingham