Reforming China's State-owned Enterprises: From Structure to People

• Published in: The China quarterly (London) Vol. 229; no. 229; pp. 107 - 129
• Main Author: Lin, Li-Wen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Attention; Banking; Banking industry; Banks; Capital markets; Capitalism; Careers; Chief executive officers; China; Chinese languages; Chinese people; Communist parties; Executives; Managers; Ownership; Political parties; Politics; Privatization; Professionalization; Public enterprise; Recruitment; Reforms; Resource management; Supervision; Work experience; China; managerial elite; cadre management; 专业化; 国有企业; 企业集团; 干部管理; China; state-owned enterprise; 高管; business group; professionalization

The Chinese Communist Party has recently unveiled its new agenda for state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform. Most attention to date has focused on structural reform through the so-called “mixed ownership” policy. This article is to direct attention to a critically important yet much less analysed item...