Dragon in a three-piece suit : the emergence of capitalism in China

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Dragon in a three-piece suit : the emergence of capitalism in China

Title remainder

the emergence of capitalism in China

Statement of responsibility

Doug Guthrie

Title variation

Emergence of capitalism in China

Creator

• Guthrie, Doug, 1969-

Subject

• 1976-2002 (Kina)
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries | Transportation
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International | Economics
• Capitalism
• Capitalism -- China
• China
• China -- Economic policy -- 1976-2000
• Economic policy
• Electronic books
• 1976-2000
• Industrial management -- China
• Industrial organization
• Industrial organization -- China
• Kapitalism -- Kina
• Organizational change
• Organizational change -- China
• TRANSPORTATION -- Public Transportation
• Industrial management

Language

eng

Summary

• "Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is 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."--Jacket
• "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."--Jacket

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

338.951

Index

index present

LC call number

HD58.8

LC item number

.G87 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography