The Chinese corporate ecosystem / Colin S.C. Hawes, University of Technology Sydney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawes, Colin S. C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law--Social aspects--China.

Corporation law.

Corporate culture--China.

Corporate culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 392 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

Challenging simplistic claims that Chinese corporations merely serve Communist Party goals, this book argues we cannot understand these corporations without tracing their dynamic evolution within a unique socio-political ecosystem. Vivid case studies illuminate the strange hybrid structures and networks that are essential for corporate success in the Chinese habitat. Tracing the reciprocal impacts between Chinese corporations and their environment, Colin S. C. Hawes reveals how corporations' political adaptations have raised serious obstacles for their international expansion and worsened China's environmental crisis. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that synthesizes insights from behavioural economics, science and Chinese philosophy, this book proposes innovative solutions to the damaging impacts of Chinese corporations. It makes a compelling case for redirecting the vital energy of corporations and government officials in more productive and sustainable directions.

Contents:

Introduction : why the corporate ecosystem?

Why is Huawei so strange?

An ecosystem for private enterprise growth : Alibaba, Ant Group, and SMEs

State-owned enterprises : mutant dinosaurs or adaptive hybrids?

The communist party and corporations

Corruption and anti-corruption

Guanxi : circulation of resources and corporate-political human relationships

Legal contradictions in the corporate-political ecosystem

Chinese corporations and the natural/human ecosystem : negative impacts

China's eco-civilization dream vs. corporate political ecosystem realities

Conclusion : a Chinese ecological approach to re-forming the corporate ecosystem.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2022).

ISBN:

1-108-95209-7

1-108-95229-1

1-108-93727-6