Fading out of local government ownership: Recent ownership reform in China's township and village enterprises

Economic Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-269

  Sun, Laixiang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive efficiency; China; Ownership restructuring; Township and village enterprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036756348     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0939-3625(02)00043-2     Document Type: Article

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