Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit : : The Emergence of Capitalism in China / / Doug Guthrie.
Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance...
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Guthrie, Doug, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit : The Emergence of Capitalism in China / Doug Guthrie. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2001] ©1999 1 online resource (320 p.) : 21 tables 14 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Firm Practices in China's Transforming Economy: Efficiency or Mimicry? -- 2. Path Dependence in China's Economic Transition -- 3. Formal Rational Bureaucracies in Chinese Firms: Causes and Implications -- 4. Changing Labor Relations in the Period of Market Reform -- 5. The Politics of Price Setting in China's Transition Economy -- 6. Economic Strategies in the Face of Market Reforms -- 7. Institutional Pressure, Rational Choice, and Contractual Relations: Chinese-Foreign Negotiations in the Economic Transition -- 8. The Declining Significance of Connections in China's Economic Transition -- 9. Conclusions and Implications -- Appendix One. Methodology and Sampling -- Appendix Two. Interviews and Informants -- Appendix Three. Complete Interview Schedule -- Appendix Four. Sample Characteristics and Variables -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s. Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, China's powerful state administration, and the hierarchy of the former command economy will continue to have profound effects on how firms act and how they adjust to change. With its combination of rigorous argument and uniquely rich detail, this book gives us the most complete picture yet of Chinese economic reform at the crucial level of the industrial firm. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Capitalism China. Industrial management China. Industrial organization China. Organizational change China. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / Economics. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package 9783110649680 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691095196 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823383 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400823383 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400823383.jpg |
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