LEADER 04888nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910809906203321 005 20210827023808.0 010 $a1-4008-1625-4 010 $a1-4008-0321-7 010 $a9786612397431 010 $a1-4008-2338-2 010 $a1-282-39743-5 010 $a1-4008-1190-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823383 035 $a(CKB)111056486498192 035 $a(EBL)475862 035 $a(OCoLC)609852848 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141216 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12010230 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141216 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10056507 035 $a(PQKB)11024793 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000359027 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11278147 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359027 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10382259 035 $a(PQKB)11471412 035 $a(OCoLC)614618656 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36092 035 $a(DE-B1597)446271 035 $a(OCoLC)979623703 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823383 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL475862 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031963 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL239743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC475862 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486498192 100 $a20030311e20021999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDragon in a three-piece suit $ethe emergence of capitalism in China /$fDoug Guthrie 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock $cPrinceton University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 1999. 311 $a0-691-09519-1 311 $a0-691-00492-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tFigures --$tTables --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$t1. Firm Practices in China's Transforming Economy: Efficiency or Mimicry? --$t2. Path Dependence in China's Economic Transition --$t3. Formal Rational Bureaucracies in Chinese Firms: Causes and Implications --$t4. Changing Labor Relations in the Period of Market Reform --$t5. The Politics of Price Setting in China's Transition Economy --$t6. Economic Strategies in the Face of Market Reforms --$t7. Institutional Pressure, Rational Choice, and Contractual Relations: Chinese-Foreign Negotiations in the Economic Transition --$t8. The Declining Significance of Connections in China's Economic Transition --$t9. Conclusions and Implications --$tAppendix One. Methodology and Sampling --$tAppendix Two. Interviews and Informants --$tAppendix Three. Complete Interview Schedule --$tAppendix Four. Sample Characteristics and Variables --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aDragon 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. 606 $aCapitalism$zChina 606 $aIndustrial management$zChina 606 $aIndustrial organization$zChina 606 $aOrganizational change$zChina 607 $aChina$xEconomic policy$y1976-2000 615 0$aCapitalism 615 0$aIndustrial management 615 0$aIndustrial organization 615 0$aOrganizational change 676 $a388.951 700 $aGuthrie$b Doug$f1969-$0283419 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809906203321 996 $aDragon in a three-piece suit$94004850 997 $aUNINA