China's Industrial State-Owned Enterprises Between Profitability and Bankruptcy

After decades of declining profitability, China's industrial state-owned enterprises appear obsolete. This book relies on extensive data and quantitative analysis to examine the reasons for the decline in profitability, to ascertain their current profitability patterns across various dimensions, and to account for any profitability gap with enterprises in other ownership forms. Recent reform measures are evaluated. A differentiated picture emerges which makes past developments comprehensible and illuminates the prospects of the reform of industrial state-owned enterprises in China. Readership: China researchers, academics, graduate students, senior undergraduates, and laypeople interested in China; foreign investors in China; the banking industry.Holz, Carsten is the author of 'China's Industrial State-Owned Enterprises Between Profitability and Bankruptcy' with ISBN 9789812383327 and ISBN 9812383328.