China’s highly successful economic transition has been accompanied by complex social change and this paper describes it in connection with the country’s change of economic system. This paper defines an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and emphasize that important features of the social development ...
Public enterprises (PEs) were widely established in industrial countries between the 1930s and 1950s and rapidly expanded among developing countries in the 1960s and 1970s. This paper conducts a literature review in relation to the three main arguments and sets up a theoretical perspective for the analysis in transition. This ...