This book brings together conceptual and empirical analyses of the causes and consequences of changing business¿government relations in China since the 1990s, against the backdrop of the country¿s increased integration with the global political economy. More specifically, it provides an interdisciplinary account of how the dominant patterns of interactions between state actors, firms and business organizations have changed across regions and industries, and how the changing varieties of these patterns have interacted with the evolution of key market institutions in China. The contributors to this edited volume posit that business¿government relations comprise a key linchpin that defines the Chinese political economy and calibrates the character of its constitutive institutional arrangements.

Uses a typological framework that focuses on how authoritative governance and market coordination interact to generate different forms and patterns of state-business relations

Chapter 1. Understanding Business-Government Relations in China: Changes, Causes and Consequences.- Chapter 2. Business-State Relations in China's Changing Economic Order.- Chapter 3. The Evolution of Government-MNC Relations in China: The Case of the Automotive Sector.- Chapter 4. Regional Business Associations in China: Changes and Continuities .- Chapter 5. Trapped into Collusion: The Under-Institutionalized Taxation System and Local Business-State Relations in China.- Chapter 6. Chinese Private Entrepreneurs' Formal Political Connections: Industrial and Geographical Distribution.- Chapter 7. International Context and China's Business-Government Relations.- Chapter 8. Business-Government Relations and Corporate Governance Reforms.- Chapter 9. The Changing Business-State Relations in China: The View from Socialist Corporatism.- Chapter 10. State Structures, Business-State Relations and Multinational Corporate Behaviours: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies.- Chapter 11. Business-State Interactions and Technology Development Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Two Metropolises.- Chapter 12. Conclusions and Reflections.