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Lu (management studies, Cambridge U.) reports on six Beijing state enterprises to illuminate their complicated business environments and the effects on management during the period 1985-89 of reforms from early in the decade that shifted decision-making power from government agencies to enterprise managers. He uses organizational decision-making theories to examine changes in purchasing, product pricing, labor recruitment, organizational structure, and investment. He also explores the economic, political, and social obligations of Chinese enterprises. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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CONTENTS
List of Tables = ⅹ
List of Figures = xii
List of Abbreviations = xiii
Foreword / by Malcolm Warner = xiv
Acknowledgements = xvi
Introduction = 1
1 Industrial Governance and Enterprise Management in China 1949-84 = 6
 1.1 State socialism in China : institutional structure and industrial governance = 6
 1.2 Attempts to improve performance in state enterprises through decentralization in the pre-reform period up to 1979 = 10
 1.3 Chinese culture and its influence on management = 11
 1.4 Start of the economic reform and the pilot programme of 1979-1983 : decentralization in selected regions = 14
2 Economic Reform : Decentralization 1984-88 = 18
 2.1 Decentralization and reform in urban areas after 1984 = 18
 2.2 Industrial governance from 1984 to 1988 = 26
 2.3 Enterprise reform in Beijing = 28
 2.4 The six enterprises in the study = 30
 2.5 Management systems within the six enterprises = 37
3 Purchase Decision-Making : Raw Materials = 41
 3.1 Economic context of the purchase of raw materials = 41
 3.2 Change of plan quotas in the six enterprises during 1985 and 1988, and purchasing decisions = 46
 3.3 Decision processes in 1985 = 47
 3.4 Purchasing decisions in 1988-89 = 50
 3.5 Discussion and summary = 56
4 Price Decision-Making : Economic Motives and Societal Constraints = 57
 4.1 Partial market reform and a dual price system = 57
 4.2 Overview of price decisions in the six enterprises in 1985 and 1988 = 61
 4.3 Prices under state control = 67
 4.4 Operating in the market = 74
 4.5 Price decrease : the enterprise's response to a competitive market = 76
 4.6 Discussion and summary = 78
5 Recruitment Decisions = 80
 5.1 The employment system in state enterprises and labour reform from 1984 = 80
 5.2 Labour management in the six enterprises = 83
 5.3 Recruitment decisions in 1985 and 1988 = 85
 5.4 Towards human resource management : Automotive's recruitment = 91
 5.5 Recruitment as a head-hunting process : looking for a specially skilled employee = 97
 5.6 Discussion and summary = 99
6 Organizational Change : The Relationship between Management and the Communist Party = 101
 6.1 Organizational change as a response to the environment and the matrix structure in state enterprises = 101
 6.2 Organizational change between 1984 and 1986 : establishment of the director's authority = 103
 6.3 Organizational change in 1987 and 1988 through government intervention = 110
 6.4 The progress and problems of organizational changes under the RLO scheme = 120
 6.5 Discussion and summary = 127
7 Investment Decision-Making : Product and Production Innovation = 129
 7.1 Investment as a strategic decision = 129
 7.2 Twelve investment decisions in two phases = 132
 7.3 Dependence on the planning authorities = 139
 7.4 Large investment projects : a case study of Automotive = 145
 7.5 New product development : an increase in enterprise autonomy = 150
 7.6 Discussion and summary = 151
8 Summary, Current Reform of State Enterprises and Conclusions = 153
 8.1 Summary of research findings in the previous chapters = 153
 8.2 Current reform of state enterprises = 158
 8.3 Update on the six enterprises in 1993 = 159
 8.4 Conclusions = 168
Appendix : Interview Checklist = 172
Notes = 173
References = 183
Index = 195