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Unlike Wang Zhidong's Sina, Zhang Chaoyang's Sohu, and Ding Lei's NetEase.com, which develop business models based on the American Internet system, Jack Ma's Alibaba is a localized Internet company that understands what the Chinese people need and how to connect small and medium-sized enterprises together (221). With the development of the digital economy, China is striving to transform from a manufacturing powerhouse to an innovative powerhouse, and a number of excellent innovative enterprises have emerged, forming a digital management model with Chinese characteristics. As a Western management scholar who spent a year visiting five Chinese high-tech companies and speaking with Chinese experts, academics, and business people, Annika Steiber came to the conclusion that China is innovating at an exponential rate and contributing Chinese samples and experience to global scientific and technological innovation. The emergence of the Internet era has significantly altered society's use of information, and an increasing number of sectors and companies are beginning their digital transformation. [Extracted from the article]

The authors rank the management schools in Greater China (including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau) based on their academic publications in the Social Sciences Citation Index management and business journals from 2000 to 2010. Following K. Ritzberger's (2008) and X. Yu and Z. Gao's (2010) ranking method, the authors develop six indices to rank institutions from several aspects, including both the quantity and quality of publications. By doing so, they provide a clear viewpoint about which institutions achieve high levels of academic performance in management and business research. They also find that (a) there is still a large gap in research rankings between business schools in Mainland China and in Hong Kong; (b) some institutions perform well in quantity rankings but poorly in quality rankings; (c) the development of the general management and operation disciplines are much more mature than that of the finance and accounting disciplines in Greater China; and (d) most outstanding institutions cooperate with developed countries at a moderate level. The authors state their contributions and future directions as well.