Krug, Prof. Dr. B.

Prof. Dr. Barbara Krug

Room	T8-03
Tel.	+31 (0) 10 4082736
	+31 (0) 10 4081980
Fax	+31 (0) 10 4089015
E-mail	bkrug@rsm.nl

Field of Interest

Professor Krug’s major contribution to organisation theory lies in the area of governance, entrepreneurship and comparative business environments. The application of transaction costs economics, Public Choice and contract theory for explaining:

• the different nature of firms;
• the emergence of entrepreneurship;
• the interrelationship between norms, customs and business routines.

Her special field of research is the Chinese economy. The empirical research focuses on long-term business relations in transition economies and situations of high uncertainty in the nascent private business sector in China. Past empirical research helped to build up a database of more than 200 private firms in China, which allows to investigate the contribution of tradition and cultural differences within China or the notion of social capital in general, for the emergence and survivability of firms.

Membership of Professional Bodies and Editorial Boards

• American Economic Association Verein fuer Socialpolitik, Committee for the Comparison of Economic Systems
• Verein fuer Socialpolitik, Committee for Social Sciences
• European Public Choice Society
• Founding Member of the International Association for Chinese Management Review
• The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), Study Group on China, 1988/89
• Honorary President of the European Public Choice Society, April 1995
• Foundation Fellow and Member of the International Advisory Board, Center for Research on Provincial China. University of Technology, Sydney and University of South Wales, Australia.
• Advisory Board European Centre for Public Choice, Rome, 1999
• Editorial Board of Management and Organization Review
• China Aktuell

Research

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Recent Publications

• Barbara Krug, Ze Zhu, Hans Hendrischke: Chinas emerging tax regime: Devolution, fiscal federalism, or tax farming? Forthcoming in ERIM
• Commons, Collectives and Corporations. The development and change in China’s rural sector. In: G. Hendrikse (ed). Restructuring Agricultural Cooperatives. Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam. 109 - 139
• Barbara Krug and Ze Zhu, Leviathan. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society (EPCS2005), March 31-April 3, 2005 Durham ). Forthcoming in ERIM.
• China's Rational Entrepreneurs. The development of the new private business sector. Edited by Barbara Krug. London: Routledge (2004) with contributions by David S G Goodman, Hans Hendrischke, Laszlo Polos.
• Hans Hendrischke, 2003 'How local are local enterprises? Privatization and translocality of small firms in Zhejiang and Jiangsu', Provincial China Volume 8 Number 1.
• Sonja Opper, Sonia M L Wong and Ruyin Hu, 2004 The Power Structure in China's Listed Companies: The Company Law and its Enforcement.
• Sonia M L Wong, Sonja Opper and Ruyin Hu, 2004 Shareholding Structure, Depoliticization and Firm Performance: Lessons from China's Listed Firms.
• Sonja Opper, Sonia M L Wong and Ruyin Hu, 2004 Party Power, Markets and Private Power: CCP Presistance in China's Listed Companies.

Teaching

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