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Prof Richard Sanders

  • Role: Professor - Contemporary Chinese Studies
  • Area: NBS - Business & Economics
  • Telephone number: 01604 89 2163
  • Email address: richard.sanders@northampton.ac.uk

I have worked in public sector education in the UK for the best part of thirty years, in schools, further and higher education. In the early nineties, I was seconded by the British Council to Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, for two years to lecture on and manage a new MA in British Studies.
  • Coordinator of The China Centre - The University of Northampton
  • Course Leader, Third World Development

The political economy of the Peoples Republic of China.

Author's work includes publications in the following areas:

  • Sustainable development, environmental protection, ecological and organic agriculture in the Peoples Republic of China.
  • Rural development in the Peoples Republic of China.
  • SMEs in Peoples Republic of China.
  • Property Rights and Corporate Governance In China.

Professional Activity

Reader in political Economy.

Publications on NECTAR


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2011

  1. He, S., Fallon, G., Sanders, R., Lawrence, P. and Vukicevic, J. (2011) Towards a new new geography of innovation: the rise of the Chinese innovation giants and its implications. Invited Presentation presented to: COST Working Group Seminar on MNCs From Emerging Economies, Bucharest, Romania, 07-08 December 2011.

2010

  1. Kakabadse, N., Yang, H. and Sanders, R. (2010) The effectiveness of non-executive directors in chinese state owned enterprises. Management Decision. 48(7), pp. 1063-1079. 0025-1747.
  2. Sanders, R. and Xiao, X. (2010) The sustainability of organic agriculture in developing countries: lessons from China. The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. 6(6), pp. 233-243. 1832-2077.
  3. Sanders, R. and Xiao, X. (2010) The sustainability of organic agriculture in developing countries: lessons from China. Paper presented to: Sixth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador, 05-07 January 2010.

2009

  1. Sanders, R. (2009) Organic agriculture in China: opportunities for co-operatives. Paper presented to: International Conference on Rural Co-operatives in China, Sun Yatsen University, Guangzhou, China, 21-25 July 2009.
  2. Kakabadse, N., Hong, Y. and Sanders, R. (2009) The recruitment and evaluation of boards of directors in China. In: Kakabadse, A. and Kakabadse, N. (eds.) Global Boards: One Desire, Many Realities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. pp. 236-265.

2008

  1. Chen, Y., Dutra, C. and Sanders, R. (2008) Institutional constraints on China's transition to sustainability. International Journal of Green Economics. 2(2), pp. 135-152. 1744-9928.
  2. Chen, Y., Sanders, R. and Wang, J. (2008) The commercialisation of Chinese universities and its effects on research capacity. In: Vessuri, H. and Teichler , U. (eds.) Universities as Centres of Research and Knowledge Creation : An Endangered Species? Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. pp. 1-280.
  3. Wang, J. and Sanders, R. (2008) The innovation of SMEs and development of industrial clusters in China - the case of Yiwu socks cluster. Paper presented to: Sanjaya Lall Programme for Technology and Management for Development (SLPTMD), Department of International Development, University of Oxford, 29-30 May 2008.
  4. Hong, Y., Kakabadse, N. and Sanders, R. (2008) The recruitment and evaluation of boards of directors in China. Paper presented to: European Academy of Business in Society (EABIS) Colloquium 2008: Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability: Leadership and Organisational Change, Cranfield University, Bedforshire, 11-12 September 2008.

2007

  1. Sanders, R. and Yang, C., (eds.) (2007) China's Post-reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth. London: Routledge. 0415434327.
  2. Sanders, R. (2007) China's post reform economy. Paper presented to: 18th CEA (Chinese Economics Association) (UK) Annual Conference, University of Nottingham, 16-17 April 2007. Presidential address
  3. Chen, Y. (2007) Exit of involution in rural China - an alternative development path? In: Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (eds.) China's Post-Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth. London: Routledge. pp. 69-84.
  4. Yang, C. and Sanders, R. (2007) From party/state regulation to "Networking Executives": the crisis of exclusive corporate governance in China. Journal of Contemporary China. 16(53), pp. 681-698. 1469-9400.
  5. Sanders, R. (2007) Introduction: China's post reform economy. In: Chen, Y. and Sanders, R. (eds.) China's Post Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth. London: Routledge. pp. 1-11.
  6. Sanders, R. and Zhang, H. (2007) Introduction: marginalisation and globalisation in transitional China. In: Sanders, R., Wu, B. and Zhang, H. (eds.) Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 1-14.
  7. Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (2007) Managing the transition from administrative monopoly to regulated monopoly in China's strategic sectors - a case study of China's oil industry. In: Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (eds.) China's Post Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth. Oxford, New York: Routledge. pp. 224-243.
  8. Zhang, H., Wu, B. and Sanders, R., (eds.) (2007) Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation. Aldershot: Ashgate. 0754644278.
  9. Sanders, R., Chen, Y. and Cao, Y. (2007) Marginalisation in the Chinese countryside: the question of rural poverty. In: Sanders, R., Wu, B. and Zhang, H. (eds.) Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 15-34.
  10. Sanders, R. (2007) Organic agriculture and food security: the case of China. Paper presented to: United Nations Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security, FAO Headquarters, Rome, 3-5 May 2007.
  11. Sanders, R. (2007) Organic agriculture in China. Panel Presentation presented to: Green Economics Conference, Mansfield College, Oxford, 3-4 April 2007.
  12. Sanders, R. (2007) Organic agriculture in Europe: lessons for China. Paper presented to: Annual Conference of the Chinese Organic Food Development Centre, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China, July 2007.
  13. Jinmin, W. and Sanders, R. (2007) The dynamics of industrial clusters in China: the case of the Ningbo clothing cluster. In: Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (eds.) China's Post-Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth. London: Routledge. pp. 170-186.
  14. Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (2007) The dynamics of industrial clusters in China: the case of the Ningbo clothing cluster. In: Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (eds.) China's Post-reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth. London: Routledge. pp. 171-186.

2005

  1. Sanders, R. and Chen, Y. (2005) On privatisation and property rights: should China go down the road of outright privatisation? Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies. 3(3), pp. 231-245. 1476-5292.

2003

  1. Chen, Y. and Sanders, R. (2003) China's path to the new economy: an institutional approach. EMERGO: Journal of Transforming Economies and Societies. 10(2), pp. 32-45. 1233-3115.
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