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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Emergence of capitalism in China".
- catalog contributor b11330757.
- catalog coverage "China Economic policy 1976-2000.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Firm practices in China's transforming economy: efficiency or mimicry? -- Path dependence in China's economic transition -- Formal rational bureaucracies in Chinese firms: causes and implications -- Changing labor relations in the period of market reform -- The politics of price setting in China's transition economy -- Economic strategies in the face of market reforms -- Institutional pressure, rational choice, and contractual relations: Chinese-foreign negotiations in the economic transition -- The declining significance of connections in China's economic transition -- Conclusions and implications.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-297) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 302 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691004927 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0691095191 (pbk)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "China Economic policy 1976-2000.".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "338.951 21".
- catalog subject "Capitalism China.".
- catalog subject "HD58.8 .G87 1999".
- catalog subject "Industrial management China.".
- catalog subject "Industrial organization China.".
- catalog subject "Organizational change China.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Firm practices in China's transforming economy: efficiency or mimicry? -- Path dependence in China's economic transition -- Formal rational bureaucracies in Chinese firms: causes and implications -- Changing labor relations in the period of market reform -- The politics of price setting in China's transition economy -- Economic strategies in the face of market reforms -- Institutional pressure, rational choice, and contractual relations: Chinese-foreign negotiations in the economic transition -- The declining significance of connections in China's economic transition -- Conclusions and implications.".
- catalog title "Dragon in a three-piece suit : the emergence of capitalism in China / Doug Guthrie.".
- catalog title "Emergence of capitalism in China".
- catalog type "text".