
Going Private in China
The Politics of Corporate Restructuring and System Reform
- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
As the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set about reforming its centrally planned economy, it faced the thorny policy question of how to reform its state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Should it support a shift from public to private ownership of the means of production? Such a shift would challenge not only the CCP's socialist ideology but also its very legitimacy. Mixing the business of corporate restructuring with the politics of socialism presented nothing short of a policy nightmare.
With policy-relevant acuity, the contributors to this wide-ranging volume address the questions about reform programs that have plagued China—and East Asia more broadly—since the 1990s. While China, Japan, and South Korea have all been criticized for implementing reform too slowly or too selectively, this volume delves into the broader contexts underlying certain institutional decisions. The book seeks to show that seemingly different political economies actually share surprising similarities, and problems. While Going Private in China sheds new light on China's corporate restructuring, it also offers new perspectives on how we think about the process of institutional change.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Abbreviations
- Glossary
- Contributors
- Preface
- I Politics in China’s Corporate Restructuring
- II China’s Corporate Restructuring: A Multi-step Process
- III The Local Politics of Restructuring State-owned Enterprises in China
- IV Distinguishing Between Losers: Institutionalizing Inequality in China’s Corporate Restructuring
- V Experience First, Laws Later: Experimentation and Breakthroughs in the Restructuring of China’s State Sector
- VI Reinvented Intervention: The Chinese Central State and State-owned Enterprise Reform in the WTO Era
- VII FDI and Corporate Restructuring in China: Is the Medicine Worse than the Disease?
- VIII The Politics of Social Security Reform in Corporate Restructuring in China
- IX Stock Markets and Corporate Reform: A Pandora’s Box of Unintended Consequences
- X Spin-offs and Corporate Governance: Listed Firms in China’s Stock Markets
- Bibliography
- Index