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Financialisation as a Strategic Action Field: An Historically Informed Field Study of Corporate Governance Reforms in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
March 13, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Galway, H91 WN80
Speaker(s): Sven Modell and ChunLei Yang
Affiliation: Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, & Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen and Turku School of Economics, Turku, and Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Organised by: Dr Geraldine Robbins
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Performance Management Cluster Seminar:
Sven Modell
Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen and Turku School of Economics, Turku
ChunLei Yang
Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester
In this seminar, a paper is presented which extends extant research on financialisation, which has evolved in advanced capitalist economies, through an historically informed field study of corporate governance reforms in Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The authores demonstrate how pressures for shareholder value creation can be channelled into governance practices which attenuate the pervasive effects of financialisation in contemporary society. They show how they contribute to research on accounting in emerging economies by exploring the under-researched role of internal governance units in the local adaptation of “Western” governance practices.