Can I read Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit : The Emergence of Capitalism in China on EtoBox?

Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit : The Emergence of Capitalism in China by Doug Guthrie, Goug Guthrie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit : The Emergence of Capitalism in China about?

Annotation Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit is an innovative sociological examination of what is perhaps the main engine of economic reform in China, the large industrial firm. Doug Guthrie, who spent more than a year in Shanghai studying firms, interviewing managers, and gathering data on firms' performance and practices, provides the first detailed account of how these firms have been radically transformed since the mid-1980s. Guthrie shows that Chinese firms are increasingly imitating foreign firms in response both to growing contact with international investors and to being cut adrift from state support. Many firms, for example, are now less likely to use informal hiring practices, more likely to have formal grievance filing procedures, and more likely to respect international institutions, such as the Chinese International Arbitration Commission. Guthrie argues that these findings support the de-linking of Western trade policy from human rights, since it is clear that economic engagement leads to constructive reform. Yet Guthrie also warns that reform in China is not a process of inevitable Westernization or of managers behaving as rational, profit-maximizing agents. Old habits, C

Who reads Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit : The Emergence of Capitalism in China?

Author

Doug Guthrie, Goug Guthrie

Publisher

Princeton University Press, California Princeton Fulfillment Services [distributor

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691095196

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Management, Sociology