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Sonja Opper

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

I)           Books:

Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China (with Victor Nee), Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard University Press 2012. For information see www.capitalism-from-below.com .

Zwischen Political Governance und Corporate Governance: Eine institutionelle Analyse chinesischer Aktiengesellschaften, Schriftenreihe zur Ostasienforschung (ed. Dieter Cassel, Winfried Flüchter, Thomas Heberer, Günter Heiduk, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Werner Pascha), Baden-Baden 2004.

Wirtschaftsreform und Beschäftigungswandel in der VR China, Schriftenreihe zur Ostasienforschung (ed. Dieter Cassel, Winfried Flüchter, Thomas Heberer, Günter Heiduk, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath and Werner Pascha), Bd. 11, Baden-Baden 1999.

II)         Journal Articles:

A Matter of Time: Revisiting Growth Convergence in China (with Fredrik N.G. Andersson and David Edgerton), World Development (forthcoming)

Entrepreneurs under Uncertainty: An Economic Experiment in China (with Håkan Holm and Victor Nee), Management Science (forthcoming).

Sales Maximization or Profit Maximization: How State Shareholders Discipline their CEOs in China (with Sonia Wong and Yong Yang), Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies 2012, 41(3).

Political Capital in a Market Economy (with Victor Nee), Social Forces 2010, 88(5): 2105-2133.

Entrepreneurial Action: Market Transition, Property Rights, and Innovation (with Victor Nee and Jeong-han Kang), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2010, 166(3): 397-425.

Why is Chinese Provincial Output Diverging? (with Joakim Westerlund and David Edgerton), Journal of Asian Economics, 2010, 21(4):333-345.

Endogenous Institutional Change and Dynamic Capitalism (co-authored with Victor Nee). Sociologia del Lavoro 2010, 118: 15-37.

Bureaucracy and Financial Markets (with Victor Nee), Kyklos, 2009, 62(2): 293-315.

Institutional Analysis of Legal Change: The Case of Corporate Governance in China (with Sylvia Schwaag-Serger), Journal of Law & Policy, 2008, 26: 245-269.

Developmental State and Corporate Governance in China (with Victor Nee and Sonia M.L. Wong), Management and Organization Review, 2007, 3(1): 19-53.

Political Economy of Labor Retrenchment: Evidence based on China’s SOEs (with Yifan Hu and Sonia M.L. Wong), China Economic Review, 2006, 17(3): 281-299.

The Political Economy of Privatization: Empirical Evidence from Transition Economies, Kyklos, 2004,  57(4): 559-586.

Shareholding Structure, De-politicization and Enterprise Performance:   Lessons from China’s Listed Companies, (with Sonia M.L. Wong and Ruyin Hu), Economics of Transition, 2004, 12(1): 29-66.

Enforcement of China’s Accounting Standards: Reflections on Systemic Problems, Business and Politics, 2003,  5(2):151-173.

Party Power, Market and Private Power: CCP Persistence in China´s Listed Companies, (with Sonia M.L. Wong and Ruyin Hu) in: Leicht, Kevin (ed.), The Future of Market Transition, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2002, 19: 103-136 .

 

III.        Book chapters

Bringing Market Transition Theory to the Firm (with Victor Nee) in Work and Organizations in China After Thirty Years of Transition, edited by Lisa A. Keister. Emerald Group Publishing, 2009, pp. 3-34.

New Institutional Economics in Transition & Developing Economies, in New Institutional Economics. A Guidebook , edited by Jean-Michel Glachant and Eric Brousseau, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008, pp. 389-405.

Privatization, Encyclopedia of Law and Society, Sage Publications, 2007.

Political Economy of Labor Retrenchment: Evidence based on China’s SOEs (with Yifan Hu and Sonia M.L. Wong), Chapter 5, in Belton Fleisher, Haizheng Li and Shunfang Song (eds.) Market Development in China: Spillovers, Growth and Inequality, Northampton: Edward Elgar Pub. 2007.

On Politicized Capitalism (with Victor Nee), Chapter 4, in Victor Nee/Richard Swedberg (eds.) On Capitalism, Stanford: Stanford University Press 2007, pp. 93-127.

Going Public without the Public: Between Political Governance and Corporate Governance, Chapter 1, in Barbara Krug/Hans Hendrischke (eds.) China in the 21st Century: Economic and Business Behaviour, London: Edward Elgar Pub. 2007, pp. 1-20.

The Power Structure in China’s Listed Companies: The Company Law and its Enforcement (with S.M.L. Wong and Ruyin Hu), China's New Role in the International Community: Challenges and Expectations for the 21st Century, edited by H.D. Assmann and K. Moser v. Filseck, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2005, pp. 119-148.

Economic Transformation in Post-Communist Societies (with Victor Nee), Jens Beckert and Milan Zafirovski, eds., International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology, Routledge 2005, pp.200-204.

Inefficient Property Rights and Corruption: The Case of Accounting Fraud in China, Johann Graf Lambsdorff, Matthias Schramm, Markus Taube, eds., Corruption and the New Institutional Economics, Routledge 2004, pp. 198-217.

 

 

 

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