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Format: XIV, 302 S , graph. Darst , 24 cm

ISBN: 0691004927

Note: Literaturverz. S. 281 - 297 , Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-297) and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Guthrie, Doug Dragon in a three-piece suit Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999 ISBN 9781400823383

Additional Edition: ISBN 1400823382

Additional Edition: ISBN 1400811902

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781400811908

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780691004921

Additional Edition: ISBN 0691004927

Language: English

Subjects: Economics

Keywords: China ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte 1976-1998 ; China ; Marktwirtschaft ; Planwirtschaft ; Transformation ; China ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Arbeitsorganisation ; Bürokratie

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Format: 1 online resource (320 pages) : , illustrations.

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9781400823383

Content: 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.

Note: 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. , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400823383

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823383

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Format: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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ISBN: 1-4008-1625-4 , 1-4008-0321-7 , 9786612397431 , 1-4008-2338-2 , 1-282-39743-5 , 1-4008-1190-2

Content: 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.

Note: Originally published: 1999. , Front matter -- , 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 , Issued also in print. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-09519-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-691-00492-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400823383