China's Business Culture

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Course Schedule

Week 1. Introduction: Course Overview

Week 2. Culture Matters

Landes, David. 2000. "Culture Makes Almost All the Difference," in Harrison and Huntington. eds., Culture Matters, pp. 2-13.

Porter, Michael. 2000. "Attitudes, Values, Beliefs, and the Microeconomics of Prosperity," in Harrison and Huntington. eds., Culture Matters, pp. 14-28.

Fukuyama, Francis. 2000. "Social Capital," in Harrison and Huntington. eds., Culture Matters, pp. 98-111.

Perkins, Dwight. 2000. "Law, Family Ties, and the East Asian Way of Business," in Harrison and Huntington. eds., Culture Matters, pp. 232-243.

Pye, Lucian. 2000. ""Asian Values": From Dynamism to Dominoes?" in Harrison and Huntington. eds., Culture Matters, pp. 244-255.

Week 3. Culture and Organizational Culture

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Thick Description," Interpretation of Culture. pp. 3-32.

Comaroff, Jean and John. 1991. Of Revelation and Revolution, pp. 13-32, 309-314.

Smircich, Linda. 1983. "Concepts of Culture and Organizational Analysis. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28, 339-358

Schein, Edgar. 1990. "Organizational Culture," American Psychologist, 45, 109-119.

Chapman, Malcolm. 1997. "Preface: Social anthropology, business studies, and cultural issues," International Studies in Management & Organization, 26 (4): 3-29.

(Recommended readings)

Kotter, John & Heskett. 1992. Corporate Culture and Performance, New York: Free Press.

Deal & Kennedy. 1982. Corporate Cultures: The Rites and Rituals of Corporate Life. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley.

Hatch, Mary Jo. 1993. "The Dynamics of Organizational Culture," Academy of Management Review. 18, 657-693.

Alvesson, M. 1995. Cultural Perspectives on Organizations. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Denison, D. R. & Mishra, A. K. 1995. "Toward a Theory of Organizational Culture and Effectiveness," Organization Science, 6, 204-223.

Pettigrew, A. M. 1979. "On Studying Organizational Cultures," Administrative Science Quarterly, 24, 570-581.

Week 4. Business Culture in China

*Reading to be announced.

Week 5. Guanxi Approach to China's Business Culture

Yang, Mayfair Mei-hui. 1994. Gifts, Favors, and Banquets. Cornell University Press. pp. 177-208.

Rowe, William. 1984. Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889. Stanford: Stanford University Press. pp. 213-340.

Susan Mann, "The Ningpo Bang and Financial Power at Shanghai," in Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner eds., The Chinese City: Between Two Worlds, pp. 73-96.

Xiang, Biao(項飇), “Zhejiang Village in Beijing: Creating a visible non-state space through migration and marketized traditional networks," in Frank Pieke and Hein        Mallee (eds.), Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives, (Surrey:       Curzon Press, 1999), pp. 215-250.

Gold, Guthrie, and Wank. 2002. "An Introduction to the study of guanxi.“ in Social Connections in China. pp. 3-20.

Luo, Yadong, 2000, Guanxi and Business. World Scientific.

(Recommended readings)

Wank, David L. Commodifying Communism: Business, Trust, and Politics in a Chinese City (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Gold, Guthrie, and Wank. 2002. "An Introduction to the study of guanxi.“ in Social Connections in China. pp. 3-20.

Zhang, Li. 2001. Strangers in the City. Stanford University Press

項  飇, 『跨越邊界的社區: 北京浙江村的生活史』(北京: 三聯書店, 2000).

Week 6. Hofstede Model Approach to China's Business Culture

Hofstede, Geert. 1997. Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind, New York: McGraw-Hill.

Hofstede, Geert. 1983. "The Cultural Relativity of Organizational Practices and Theories,"  Journal of International Business Studies. 14(2): 75-89.

(Recommended readings)

Trompenaars and Hampden-Turner. 1998. Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in Global Business. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Hofstede, Geert. 1993. "Cultural Constraints in Management Theories," Academy of Management Executive 7 (1): 81-94.

Week 7. "Diamond Model" Approach to China's Business Culture

Porter, Michael. 1990. "The Competitiveness Advantage of Nations(Diamond Model)," reprinted in Cho and Moon eds.(2000), From Adam Smith to Michael Porter, pp. 55-94.

Moon and Rugman and Verbeke. 1998. "A Generalized Double Diamond Approach to the Global Competitiveness of Korea and Singapore(The Generalized Double Diamond Model)," reprinted in Cho and Moon eds.(2000), From Adam Smith to Michael Porter, pp. 111-133.

Week 8. Post-Mao Managers and Entrepreneurs

Serrie, Hendrick. 1999. "Training Chinese Managers for Leadership," Practicing Anthropology 21: 35-41.

Wong Siu-lun. 1996. "Chinese Entrepreneurship and Economic Development," in McCormick and Unger eds., China After Socialism, pp. 130-148.

Wank, David. 2002. "Business-State Clientelism in China: Decline or Evolution?" in Social Connections in China. pp. 97-115.

(Recommended readings)

Goodman, David. 1999. "The New Middle Class." in Merle Goldman and Roderick MacFarquhar (eds.), The Paradox of China's Post-Mao Reforms (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 241-261.

Margaret M. Pearson, China's New Business Elite: The Political Consequences of Economic Reform(Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 100-153.

Dickson, Bruce J. Red Capitalists in China: The Party, Private Entrepreneurs, and Prospects for Political Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

陸學藝 主編, 2004.  『當代中國社會流動』 北京: 社會科學文獻出版社.

Week 9. Term paper Outline

Week 10. The Impact of Legal Reforms on China's Business Culture

*Reading to be announced.

Week 11. Practice I: LG Display

Week 12. Practice II: Dongyang Orion Group

Week 13. Practice III: Chinese Enterprises in Korea

Week 14. Practice IV: Chinese Enterprises in Korea

Week 15. Student Presentations