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SUMMARY:State Structures\, State-Business Relations and Multinational Corp
 orate Behaviour: A Case Study of Chinese Multinational Oil Companies - Dr 
 Jin Zhang\, Judge Business School
DTSTART:20160217T140000Z
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CONTACT:41557
DESCRIPTION:The Political Economy of China Graduate Discussion Group is de
 lighted to invite you to a presentation by Dr Jin Zhang\, Lecturer in Inte
 rnational Business and China at the Judge Business School. \n\nPlease RSVP
  either by email at vm314@cam.ac.uk or on the facebook event page. \n\nABS
 TRACT: \n\nThis seminar will consider the central proposition that the beh
 aviour of Chinese multinational corporations is determined by the national
  characteristics of the state structures and state-business relations. Two
  strands of theoretical approaches\, the political economy approach and th
 e economic sociology perspective\, suggest three key causal variables are 
 particularly crucial in determining the behaviour of multinational enterpr
 ises: the institutional structures of state economic and political agencie
 s\, the organizational configuration of business actors\, and the state-fi
 rm policy linkages. This seminar will look at corporate governance mechani
 sms in the Chinese oil majors and their patterns of overseas investments a
 nd show how these are conditioned by the evolving national institutional s
 tructure of political and economic agencies\, their market position\, and 
 inter-firm relations. \n\nPRESENTER'S BIOGRAPHY: \n\nDr Jin Zhang is Unive
 rsity Lecturer in International Business and China at the Judge Business S
 chool\, Fellow of Wolfson College and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Chi
 na Executive Leadership Programme. She teaches undergraduate\, postgraduat
 e and MBA courses on topics such as international business economics\, pol
 itical economy of technology policy\, and comparative studies on multinati
 onal firms and large Chinese firms. Her current researches focus on state-
 business relations and multinational corporate behaviour\, multinational c
 orporate structure and governance\, and the political economy of China’s
  large commercial aircraft industry. Her research books include Catch-up a
 nd Competitiveness in China: Large Firms in the Oil Industry (Routledge\, 
 2004) and Global Business Revolution and Cascade Effect (With P.Nolan and 
 C. Liu\, Palgrave 2007). Both books have been published in Chinese by Nank
 ai University Press. She has published papers in journals such as Cambridg
 e Journal of Economics\, World Development and Journal of Peking Universit
 y (Socials Sciences). Her latest paper on China’s oil industry and inter
 national investment was published in the Handbook on China and Developing 
 Countries edited by Carla P. Freeman (Edward Elgar\, 2015). She serves on 
 the editorial board of Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies.\n
LOCATION:Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3
  9DT
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