China's State-Owned Enterprises

Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization

Wendy Leutert

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: Economics
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009486569
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

Why do Chinese state-owned enterprises routinely respond to central-level goals and policies in different ways, and why do their reform trajectories often vary significantly across firms and over time? This book introduces a leadership approach to studying the politics, process, and outcomes of economic reform in China's public sector. Using a series of in-depth case studies, Wendy Leutert analyses the exercise and effects of leadership in Chinese state-owned enterprises. She uncovers the 'intra-organizational politics of reform': the daily dynamics of cooperation and conflict between leaders and their subordinates inside public-sector organizations. She also identifies common tactics that Chinese state-owned enterprise leaders use to execute their agendas and ways their subordinates respond. Updating and expanding existing knowledge, this book highlights the growing global consequences of leadership in Chinese state-owned enterprises and why leadership remains vital for understanding China today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• 1 Reform and Leadership
• 2 A Leadership Approach
• 3 Enterprise Reforms since 1978: Evolving Constraints and Space for Leadership
• 4 Reform through Leadership in China Infrastructure (CI)
• 5 China’s National Champions: Leadership and Reform on a Global Stage
• 6 Leader–Subordinate Dynamics in Chinese SOEs
• 7 Rethinking the Domestic Politics of Reform as SOE Leadership Goes Global
• Appendix A Methodology and Research Design
• Appendix B Participant Observation and Interviews in CI
• Appendix C List of Interviewees
• References
• Index