The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change

by Morris Bian

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067401717X
• ISBN13: 9780674017177
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"