China has moved rapidly from a socialist planned economy to a market economy. As a result, many enterprises in China are seeking talented top management to increase their performance and decrease their default risk. Studies abound regarding top management turnover and its relationship with firm performance, however, few studies have connected top management turnover with firm default risk. In C...

Over the past decade, urban residents have experienced a consumer revolution at multiple levels. In terms of material standard of living, sustained economic growth has dramatically increased spending on discretionary consumer purchases and urbanites have enthusiastically consumed globally branded foodstuffs, pop-music videos and fashion. At the same time, however, income distribution has become...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 C socialist leadership has long embraced a fascination with science and technology. Newspeak from the Politburo proclaims the future of information technology. Political propaganda and market hype come together to promote the benefits of the new technological revolution. A journey from Beijing’s Capital airport to the city centre leaves visi...

Much advance has been made in the study of the new urbanization process in post reform China. But the resulting urban system in Guangdong province has not been thoroughly analyzed creating a knowledge gap between the new urbanization process and the new urban system. This paper attempts to reveal the emerging urban system hierarchy in the 1990s in Guangdong province under socialist market econo...

This paper discusses the shifting relationships between civic organizations and the state in contemporary Russia. Drawing on a case study of the provincial city of Tver, the paper explores how local activists and authorities interpret citizenship and draw the state-society boundaries at the juncture between the Socialist past and the capitalism of today. The paper argues that the authorities ad...

This paper brings together consideration of food policies and practices and of post-socialist transition to raise neglected questions about means of nurturing more sustainable food systems in the developed world. The last three decades have been marked by the growing salience of food as a political and scholarly concern. While market-based alternative food systems have been heralded for their p...

This paper draws upon the case study of Novi Zagreb to examine the extent to which architecture can resist political authority. Although the circumstances of its conception are still obscure, I argue that it came into existence as an outcome of the resistance of architecture to political forces. In contrast to the existing studies claiming that the first urban complexes of the Naval Institute a...

The paper reviews some research on urban poverty in China. This topic began to attract academic attention in mid1990s. In the marketization, the old socialist system in China, which included full employment and comprehensive social welfare for urban citizens, has been replaced by an emerging labor market and a socialized and partially privatized social security. The time lag between the old and...

This paper situates the rise of city-regionalism in China context Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s approach to urban question since 1949. From strictly controlling urbanization during first two decades socialist central planning, state now promotes mega city-regionalization (literally Chinese, city clusters) as a vehicle for internationalizing China’s economy. A reframed today emerges from ongoi...

Abstract The scale and the specificity of intra-urban suburbanisation is subject to evaluation in this article, based on a case study Wrocław city (SW Poland), using data population changes at an level construction activity city. Intra-urban characterised by intensive growth peripheral districts city, while depopulation takes place central part large panel block estates from socialist period. m...