Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Party Organization in State-owned Enterprises

Kasper Ingeman Beck and Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard have contributed an article to The China Quarterly analyzing the historical and recent development of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organization in state-owned enterprises (SOE), and discusses the implications for the nature of the Chinese corporate world.

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31/01/2022

Our article analyses the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the corporate governance of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Relying on official documents, secondary literature and interviews with enterprise managers, government officials and academics, we document how the CCP has actively formalized its role in Chinese business by embedding itself in the corporate governance structure of SOEs. Through the application of Chinese indigenous administrative corporate governance concepts, the CCP has consolidated its dominance of enterprise decision-making procedures and personnel appointment and created a hybrid, Party-led model of corporate governance. While this hybrid model can secure enterprise compliance, communication with higher state and Party organs, as well as long-term development planning, it is unlikely to help solve SOE efficiency problems and may even undermine other SOE reforms. 
https://www.doi.org/10.1017/S0305741021001351

Sidst opdateret: Department of International Economics, Government and Business // 14/02/2022