ABSTRACT

In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case studies that focus on how large corporations like Haier, Huawei and Mengniu have attempted to transform their cultures, and how they represent themselves as complying with the Chinese government’s interpretation of "positive" corporate culture.

Hawes demonstrates how the foreign concept of corporate culture has been re-defined in China to fit the Chinese political, social and cultural context. He examines how this re-definition of corporate culture reflects a uniquely Chinese conception of the purposes and social functions of the capitalist business corporation and how the Chinese Communist Party’s active promotion of "socialist" corporate culture evidences a shift in the Party’s identity towards a business-friendly champion of corporate and economic development.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of Asian Studies, Business and Management and Chinese studies.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

The corporate culture phenomenon in China

part |29 pages

The theory and politics of corporate culture in China

chapter 1|11 pages

Corporate culture in China

Official and academic interpretations

chapter 2|16 pages

Following or re-drawing the party line?

Large Chinese firms transforming their cultural values

part |90 pages

Techniques and vehicles for transforming corporate culture

chapter 3|18 pages

Corporate culture propaganda campaigns

Techniques for implementing positive cultural values within Chinese firms

chapter 5|23 pages

Leading by example

CEOs, moral leadership, and the promotion of corporate (and “Chinese”) culture

chapter 6|19 pages

Corporate culture and incentive systems

Haier and Huawei

chapter |8 pages

Conclusion

A hybrid socialist corporate culture (with Chinese characteristics)?