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Title

The making of the state enterprise system in modern China : the dynamics of institutional change / Morris L. Bian.

Author

Bian, Morris L., 1961-

Publication

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2005.

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Description

xi, 331 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Morris Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise - bureaucratic governance, management and incentive mechanisms, and the provision of social services and welfare - developed in China during the war years 1937-1945." "Bian offers a new theory of institutional change that explains the formation of China's state enterprise system as the outcome of the sustained systemic crisis triggered by the Sino-Japanese war. This work combines critical analysis of government policies with case studies of little-studied enterprises in heavy industries and the ordnance industry. Drawing on extensive research in previously unavailable archives, Bian adds a historical perspective to the current debate on how to reform China's sluggish and unprofitable state-owned firms."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Industrial organization > China > History > 20th century
• Government business enterprises > China > History > 20th century
• Steel industry and trade > China > History > 20th century
• Ordnance > Manufacture > History > 20th century
• Iron industry and trade > China > History > 20th century
• Industrial policy > China > History > 20th century
• Industrial management > China > History > 20th century
• Danwei > History > 20th century

Note

• Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Washington) under the title: The Sino-Japanese War and the shaping of a new institutional pattern of state enterprise in China, 1935-1945. Both the scope of research and period covered have been expanded.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Development of the ordnance industry -- 2. Expansion of heavy industries -- 3. Enterprise governance structure -- 4. Enterprise management and incentive mechanisms -- 5. Enterprise provision of social services and welfare -- 6. Danwei designation of state-owned enterprises -- 7. Nationalist ideology of the developmental state.

ISBN

067401717X (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004059653

OCLC

• ocm56599027
• SCSB-5175092

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries