The entrepreneurial state in China : real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin / Jane Duckett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duckett, Jane, 1964-

Series:

Routledge studies--China in transition ; 5.

Routledge studies of China in transition ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Government business enterprises--China--Tianjin.

Government business enterprises.

Government corporations--China--Tianjin.

Government corporations.

Entrepreneurship--China--Tianjin.

Entrepreneurship.

Real estate management--China--Tianjin--Case studies.

Real estate management.

Tianjin (China)--Commercial policy.

Tianjin (China).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990's, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering.This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of illustrations; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: market reform and the state; 1 The Chinese state from plan to market; 2 Tianjin: the government of a city under reform; 3 The state administration of real estate and its reform; 4 Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments; 5 The state administration of commerce and its reform; 6 The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments; 7 China's entrepreneurial state; Appendices

Glossary of translated terms Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-262) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66174-6

1-134-66175-4

1-280-60359-3

9786610603596

0-203-03018-4

9780203030189

OCLC:

77531906