The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China

内容简介：

When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Morris Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise - bureaucratic governance, management and incentive mechanisms, and the provision of social services and welfare - developed in China during the war years 1937-1945. Bian offers a new theory of institutional change that explains the formation of China's state enterprise system as the outcome of the sustained systemic crisis triggered by the Sino-Japanese war. This ground-breaking work combines critical analysis of government policies with case studies of little-studied enterprises in heavy industries and the ordnance industry. Drawing on extensive research in previously unavailable archives, Bian adds a valuable historical perspective to the current debate on how to reform China's sluggish and unprofitable state-owned firms.

作者简介：

卞历南（Morris L. Bian）是美国奥本大学历史系副教授。曾获奥本大学创造性学术研究成就奖（2009）。现任20世纪中国历史学会会长（2010—2012）。在20世纪80年代，致力于美国历史研究，参与编写《美国内战与镀金时代：1861—19世纪末》（人民出版社，1990，2005）。20世纪90年代初开始研究中国历史，着重探讨中国现代政治、经济，以及社会制度的演变。

目录：

Introduction

1 Development of the Ordnance Industry

2 Expansion of Heavy Industries

3 Enterprise Governance Structure

4 Enterprise Management and Incentive Mechanisms

5 Enterprise Provision of Social Services and Welfare

6 Danwei Designation of State-Owned Enterprises

7 Nationalist Ideology of the Developmental State

Conclusion