ABSTRACT

Chinese management has experienced a dramatic change in recent years. In many areas, established ideas about how Chinese management operates are oversimplified and outdated. This book sets out to provide a more realistic portrait of Chinese management today, and how it has changed dramatically over the past ten years. The portrait of contemporary C

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|6 pages

Of different minds

chapter |3 pages

Box 1.2 Avoiding trouble

chapter |1 pages

Box 1.4 Face

chapter |2 pages

Trust and suspicion

chapter |3 pages

Negotiation

chapter |1 pages

Tradition and modernity

chapter |2 pages

Box 1.5 Managing luck

chapter |2 pages

Box 1.6 Trust, contract and age

chapter |3 pages

Confucius or Marx?

chapter 2|2 pages

Mandarins and managers

chapter |7 pages

Box 2.1 Fringe benefits

chapter |1 pages

Box 2.2 Nobody’s business

chapter |2 pages

Principals and agents

chapter |4 pages

Box 2.3 Loans

chapter |3 pages

‘Too many mothers-in-law’

chapter |6 pages

Box 2.6 Cooking the books

chapter |1 pages

Box 2.7 Output targets

chapter |5 pages

Box 2.8 The perils of cutting output

chapter |3 pages

Transforming the bureau

chapter 3|3 pages

Inside the enterprise

chapter |4 pages

Box 3.1 Forgetting one’s lines

chapter |2 pages

Box 3.2 The Party steps in

chapter |1 pages

Box 3.3 Managerial appointments

chapter |4 pages

Box 3.5 The red chip

chapter |1 pages

Management style

chapter |15 pages

Box 3.7 Visiting the district governor

chapter |6 pages

Box 3.11 Put out more flags

chapter |1 pages

Box 3.12 The trade union official

chapter 4|4 pages

Taking the capitalist road

chapter |1 pages

Box 4.3 The Tailong Credit Association

chapter |2 pages

Subsidiaries and diversification

chapter |2 pages

Box 4.4 Going to court: a case study

chapter |1 pages

Government relations

chapter |4 pages

Box 4.5 The brothers

chapter |2 pages

Box 4.7 ‘777’

chapter 5|4 pages

A shift in complexion:

the emergence of new organisational forms

chapter |16 pages

Box 5.1 Changing pockets

chapter 6|7 pages

Managing a surprise:

the township and village enterprises

chapter 7|5 pages

Where the twain meet

chapter |2 pages

The return of the comprador

chapter |7 pages

Box 7.2 On being too Chinese

chapter |1 pages

Box 7.6 The failings of formality

chapter |1 pages

Human resources

chapter |8 pages

Box 7.7 Putting supporters in place

chapter 8|10 pages

Conclusions