WLADIMIR ANDREFF Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Programme on Reforming and Opening Post-Socialist Economic Systems (ROSES), University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, France LASZLO CZABAN Lecturer in International Business, University of Leeds NIGEL HARRIS Professor of Development Planning, University College, University of London EUN MEE KIM Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, USA DIC LO Lecturer in Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London DAVID LOCKWOOD Lecturer in Russian and Soviet History, University of Melbourne, Australia VICTOR NEE Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology, Cornell University and Fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences, Stanford, California, USA PETER NOLAN University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge HUGO RADICE Lecturer in Economics, University of Leeds RICHARD SCASE Professor of Sociology and Organizational Behaviour, University of Kent at Canterbury SIJIN SU Researcher and Consultant on Chinese Business, Berkeley, California, USA SARAH VICKERSTAFF Senior Lecturer in Social and Public Policy, University of Kent at Canterbury RICHARD WHITLEY Professor of Organizational Sociology, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester