This book, first published in 1996, examines the problems associated with the management of change, particularly those brought about by the rapid pace of economic development in China in the ‘reform’ period since 1979. China’s managers were challenged as never before as the country integrated itself into the world economy, introduced new technology, and decentralized control over its industries. This book discusses their successes and failures in chapters by specialists in Chinese management practice.
Part
1. Reflections on Reform
1. Structural Inheritance or Policy
Choice? Explaining the Results of Post-Stalinist Reform in Europe and Asia
Ha-Joon Chang and Peter Nolan
2. The Institutional Nature of Chinas Emerging
Economic Order Max Boisot and John Child Part
2. Decision Making
3.
Decentralization of Decision Making in Chinas State Enterprises Yuan Lu and
John Child
4. Politics, Culture and Decision Making in China Robin Porter
5.
Vision, Mechanism and Logic: Understanding the Strategic Investment Decision
Making Process Mark Easterby-Smith and Gao Junshan Part
3. Enterprise
Challenges
6. An Intellectual Perspective on Chinas Township Enterprises
Hong Liu, Nigel Campbell, Lu Zheng and Wang Yanzhong
7. The Challenges Facing
Manufacturing Managers in Chinese Factories Paul Forrester
8. Changing
Patterns of Collaboration Between Research Organizations and Business
Enterprises in Technological Innovation in China Fred Steward and Charles
Quan Li Part
4. Managing and Developing People
9. Adaptive Personnel
Management: Evidence of an Emerging Heterogeneity in Chinas Foreign Trade
Corporations David H. Brown and Mohamed Branine
10. Beyond the Iron
Rice-Bowl: Comprehensive Labour Reform in State Owned Enterprises in
North-East China Malcolm Warner
11. Management Education in the Peoples
Republic of China M.W. Luke Chan
David H. Brown
