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Seeks to analyze China's industrial reform in the 1980s by examining the Chinese bicycle industry. It sets the changes since 1978 into historical perspective by giving an account of the development of this industry.

An assessment of the impact of the post-Mao market-orientated reforms in China on the Chinese state and its relations with economy and society. It investigates the political and social consequences of an economic strategy which aims to introduce markets into a centrally-planned socialist economy.

Examines the policies of labour reform in China, with particular reference to occupational inheritance, flexible labour efficiency wage and enterprise behaviour.

Presents an analysis of the political processes involved in China's wage policy. Akio Takahara illuminates the political conflicts and interests among national policy makers, local authorities, grassroots units and various socio-economic groups, and identifies constraints on wage reform.

This book offers a unique guide to China's long economic history and to the embryonic development of Chinese capitalism.

Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy attempts to deal with how China's economic reforms have undermined the 'iron rice-bowl' system which since the 1950s has provided both 'lifetime-employment' and 'cradle-to-the-grave' welfare for many workers, particularly those in state-owned enterprises.

This book provides a comprehensive overview and some economic analysis of China's economic reform experiences, particularly those since the late 1980s.

How do Chinese managers learn to do their job? Management training has become a vital necessity for China under the economic reforms. This book, based on empirical study of the institutions involved, is the first to examine in depth the industrial and management training in China.

This book analyses the impact of the current economic reform on the income development of peasant households in the People's Republic of China.

This book is about the enterprise reform in China in general, and the Contract Management Responsibility System (the CMRS) in particular. The latter is an institutional arrangement to deal with the relation between the government and the state-owned enterprise which has always been at the centre of the enterprise reform.

This book examines key issues in each of the major sectors of the Chinese economy. It illuminates the way in which China's 'step-by-step' reform affected different parts of the economy. It also enables readers to understand why this broad strategy of reforming a communist planned economy was so successful in the Chinese case.

Corporate governance, namely the relationship between the ownership and control of firms, takes on new dimensions in the case of international joint ventures operating in the special context of China.

The transformation and industrialization of rural China is the underlying theme of this book. It uses case studies of selected regions in south China where rural changes have been particularly dramatic. It looks at how capital and labour are mobilized and reallocated by change.

It uses historical evidence to show that individuals and communities act to manage resources sustainably for a number of reasons including economic benefit, religious or symbolic purposes, and that sustainability of the management system depends on the form of control exerted over the resource.

China's agricultural growth in the past two decades has been called a miracle. In addition, this book also investigates the impact of economic reforms on agriculture, the potential of grain production in China, and regional disparities in agricultural production and growth performance.

As the rural township, village and private enterprises are becoming more significant in the Chinese economy, this text focuses on the comparison of the rural (non-state) and state firms in terms of performance.

Provides an insider's examination of China's economic reform and its political implications. The book sheds new light on the Chinese approach to reform, including its dual-goal, dynamic gradualism and reform leadership. It assesses the vast social and political changes set forth by the reform and the international ramifications of China's rise.

This book examines how China's decentralization process has affected and will affect the country's macroeconomic performance and the functioning of the market.

This book analyses the management of human resources in Chinese industry, covering the period from 1949 to present, particularly focusing on the period of economic reforms in the 1980s and early 1990s. This arrangement is now under threat from the recent labour reforms and the emergence of a nascent labour market.