Chinese banking reforms in perspective: towards global alignment or national specificity?

Elisabeth Paulet () and Francesc Relano
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Elisabeth Paulet: ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine
Francesc Relano: ICN Business School, CEREFIGE - Centre Européen de Recherche en Economie Financière et Gestion des Entreprises - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: The reforms of the banking sector in China conducted so far have been seeking to accomplish, simultaneously, two conflicting goals. On the one hand, the objective was to prepare Chinese banks for international competition and put them at the pace with the transformations observed in its overall economy. On the other, there is a social-driven agenda concerning employment and regional inequalities. Using principal component analysis, this article explores the impact of the ongoing reforms in the Chinese banking sector on the performance of individual banks. The results show that despite identical regulation, business practices can be dissimilar at the individual level. Taken collectively, the results also show the increasing influence of Western management standards in the Chinese banking sector.

Keywords: China; banking industry; globalization; principal component analysis; privatization; reforms; state intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-01
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Published in Asia Pacific Business Review, 2018, 24 (3), pp.294 - 311. ⟨10.1080/13602381.2018.1429604⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2018.1429604

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