Disembedding Socialist Firms as a Statist Project: Restructuring the Chinese Oil Industry, 1997–2002

• Published in: Enterprise & society Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 59 - 97
• Main Author: Lin, Kun-Chin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2006; OXFORD JOURNALS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Subjects: Authoritarianism; Bureaucracy; Business structures; Central government; Centralization; Corporations; Debt restructuring; Decentralization; Economic crisis; Economic impact; Economic reform; Essays; Field study; Governance; Innovations; Market economies; Oil companies; Oil industry; Organizational change; Petroleum; Petroleum industry; Political behavior; Political economy; Politicians; Principal place of business; Public enterprise; Social impact; Social norms; Social sciences; Social structure; Social structures; Sociology; Sociopolitical factors; Studies; Subsidiary companies; China

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