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The Elusive Market: Privatization, Politics and State–Enterprise Reform in China
Author(s) -
Hassard J.,
Morris J.,
Sheehan J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
british journal of management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.407
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1467-8551
pISSN - 1045-3172
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8551.00239
Subject(s) - china , politics , property rights , state (computer science) , government (linguistics) , market economy , economic reform , state capitalism , business , state ownership , economic system , property (philosophy) , political economy , economics , political science , capitalism , law , epistemology , algorithm , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
Although China’s largest state–owned enterprises (SOEs) are destined to remain state–owned for the immediate future, recent reforms have affected these SOEs’ property rights and ownership structures. Moreover, the government’s insistence that privatization is not implied by present reform programmes is increasingly contradicted by actual developments and managers’ attitudes at the enterprise level. This article explores some of the political and organizational tensions created by this present phase of SOE reform.