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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812117303321

Titolo

Enterprise and welfare reform in communist Asia / / editors, Peter Ferdinand and Martin Gainsborough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Portland, Or. : , : Frank Cass, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-75860-3

0-203-00532-5

1-135-75861-1

1-280-17532-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (133 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FerdinandPeter

GainsboroughMartin <1966->

Disciplina

338.095/09171/7

Soggetti

Economic assistance - Asia

Economic assistance, Russian - Asia

Communism - Asia

Capitalism - Asia

Mixed economy - Asia

Industrial policy - Asia

Business enterprises - Government policy - Asia

Public welfare - Asia

Asia Commercial policy Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

This group of studies first appeared in a special issue. of The journal of communist studies and transition politics (ISSN 1352-3279) 19/1 (March 2003) published by Frank Cass--Verso t.p.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Fluctuating Institutions of Enterprise Management in North Korea: Prospects for Local Enterprise Reform; Pragmatism in the Face of Adversity: Enterprise Reform in Laos; Slow, Quick, Quick: Assessing Equitization and Enterprise Performance Prospects in Vietnam; Entrepreneurs in China and Vietnam as Strategic Players in Social and Political Change; China's Social Security Reforms and the Comparative Politics of Market Transition; Trade Unionism in China: Sinking or Swimming?; Abstracts;



Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Featuring a wide geographical scope, this collection of essays surveys enterprise and welfare reforms in all the remaining four Asian communist states: China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union they can no longer place major reliance upon assistance from other 'fraternal' states and have to devise their own strategies for survival. All have shown a trend towards greater reliance on market forces, though in different ways and to varying degrees. Enterprise management has to adapt to this. In some of them entrepreneurs have become politically and socially accep