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From Market Despotism to Managerial Hegemony: The Rise of Indigenous Chinese Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Jianjun Zhang
Jianjun Zhang*
Affiliation:
Peking University, China
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Through examining executive rationale on why firms exist, Redding and Witt's (2015) paper serves as a window through which we can view varieties of capitalism and management models in several societies. However, though rationales are the socially constructed, historical patterns of material practices, they are after all ideational factors. The economic action and organizational practices, as Redding and Witt acknowledge, are often the result of the interplay of the material and ideational forces in society. Meanwhile, as the studied five economies are all relatively mature economies, executive rationales are rather stable, which is not the case for China. This commentary thus examines the evolution of Chinese management along with the shift of political economic parameters.

Keywords

indigenous Chinese managementmanagerial hegemonymarket despotism
Type
Commentaries
Information
Management and Organization Review , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 205 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The International Association for Chinese Management Research 2015 

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