Foreign Banks in Shanghai

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An Ecological Analysis

the market of high returns and quick profits as the popular press and

communis opinio seem to suggest? This book offers a more moderated

perspective. It shows, by employing theories and methods from the

field of organizational ecology, that the intricacies of the local market

might frequently have been underestimated. Based on a detailed

in Shanghai, competition among them is intensifying to the extent

that it is deterring the founding of new foreign banks in Shanghai.

Foreign banks furthermore face long waiting times before they can

start providing banking services and, in addition, their profitability is

affected by the growing number of domestic banks. From a theoretical

perspective, the findings in this book add significantly to the study of

re-emerging organizational forms, the study of ecological dynamics

prior to entry into a population, and theories concerning interpopulation competition such as resource partitioning.

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