As China began its economic reforms in the late 1970s and made a transition from planned to a market economy, corporate governance of the banking sector became an increasingly pressing issue. Further, in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crises in the late 1990s, Chinese authorities became acutely aware of the importance of corporate governance to ensure that their banking system would not suffer similar fates to those of other Asian countries.
This book examines corporate governance in city commercial banks, which are the main source of loans to the dynamic small and medium...
As China began its economic reforms in the late 1970s and made a transition from planned to a market economy, corporate governance of the banking s...