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Enterprise Culture Management in China: Insiders' Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Fang Lee Cooke
Translated by
李应芳
Fang Lee Cooke*
Affiliation:
The University of Manchester, UK
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Abstract

In this paper, I review the history and current practices of enterprise culture management in China from an insider's perspective. Based on a systematic analysis of case study reports on enterprise culture published in the academic and practitioners' journals, I analysed how enterprise culture was understood and implemented in organizations of different ownership forms. I also discuss the Chinese characteristics and the influence of Western management techniques in the manifestation of Chinese enterprise culture. I argue that the configuration of Chinese organizational culture is heavily influenced by societal culture, in that there is a relatively heavier focus on relationship management than on performance management, at least based on the rhetoric of the enterprise managers.

Keywords

Chinaenterprise cultureorganizational performanceownership forms企业文化企业绩效中国所有制形式
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Management and Organization Review , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , July 2008 , pp. 291 - 314
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Copyright © International Association for Chinese Management Research 2008

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