Business Horizons

Contents
Volume 51, Number 6 November-December 2008

Guest Editor's Perspective
Understanding China in transition
Majorie A. Lyles 457

Executive Focus
Apreciating cultural differences in China: An
interview with Robert A. Eckert, Chairperson of the
Board and CEO of Mattel, Inc.
Majorie A. Lyles 463

A win-win relationship: An interview with Zhou
Wenzhong, Ambassador to the United States
from the People's Republic of China
Majorie A. Lyles 469

FEATURED ARTICLES: China Special Issue
Ownership structure and the diversification and
performance of publicly-listed companies in China
Andrew Delios, Nan Zhou, and Wei Wei Xu 473

China's outward foreign direct investment
Wei He and Majorie A. Lyles 485

Piracy in China
Erin Swike, Sean Thompson, and Christine Vasquez 493

Overcoming corporate rigidities in the dynamic
Chinese market
Shenxue Li, Mark Easterby-Smith, and
Majorie A. Lyles 501

Financial reforms in Chinese banking: The impact
on personal lending and operational efficiency
Michael Horrocks, Venkataramanan Ramswamy,
and Keri Rupp 511

Challenging Confucius: Western banks in the
Chinese credit card market
Justin W. Evans 519

Executive Digests
Understanding and managing CEO celebrity
David J. Ketchen Jr., Garry L. Adams, and
Christopher L. Shook 529

Corporate social responsibility, corporate governance
and financial performance: Lessons from finance
Robert Neal and Philip L. Cochran 535

FEATURED ARTICLES
The new value imperative for privately held
companies: The why, what, and how of value
management strategy
John W. Hill and Thomas L. Zeller 541

The market within: A marketing approach to creating and developing high-value employment relationships
Linda Schweitzer and Sean Lyons 555

BOOKS ON THE HORIZONS by Mimi Dollinger
Dragons at your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation
is Disrupting Global Competition
Ming Zeng and Peter J. Williamson 567

Billions of Entreprenuers: How China and India are
reshaping their futures and yours
Tarun Khanna 568

Microtrends: The small forces behind tomorrow's
big changes
Marc J. Penn with E. Kinney Zalesne 569

What were they thinking? Unconventional Wisdom
about Management
Jeffrey Pfeffer 570

Author Index, Volume 51 (2008) 573

Subject Index, Volume 51 (2008) 576

Contents of Volume 51 (2008) 580