Enterprise ownership, enterprise organisation, and worker attitudes in Chinese rural industry: some new evidence

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China's Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) have performed remarkably well during the post-1979 period. However, agreement on their organisational and behavioural characteristics and the reasons for their success remains elusive. For some, TVEs are simply private enterprises in disguise and behaviourally equivalent; for others, TVEs represent a unique form of enterprise organisation based on collective ownership; the success of which poses a serious challenge to the conventional prescriptions favouring privatisation. This paper reports findings from a small survey of private and collective rural enterprises in Heilongjiang, north-east China. We find strong evidence that differences in ownership are reflected in different forms of organisational behaviour, residual payment structures, and in different worker attitudes and degrees of commitment to the enterprise.

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