China's State Owned Enterprise Reform: An Industrial and CEO Approach

Although former President Deng Xiaoping’s words are now more than twenty years old, they are still valid today. After all, the Chinese reform experience is an experiment in itself: it remains somewhat unique and it is not based on any blueprint. This uniqueness, which is part of a complex and dynamic transitional economic framework, has led us to offer a modest contribution reflecting the experimental process of China’s state-owned enterprise (SOEs) reforms and therefore a better understanding of China’s still undefined economic model.
Despite the abundant literature on China’s economic reforms in general and the SOEs in particular, the singularity of this book stems from the combined profile of the two authors and fundamentally from the combined contents of the book, in which macro-economic and micro-economic analyses are joined into one. Indeed, this book is the product of the cooperation between a Professor of the Chinese economy working with Chinese public institutions, and a Professor of Management working with Chinese private firms. As observers of China’s reality, we professors
would like to provide a print of real experiences combined as part of a common general economic context. This situation may be familiar to some readers, but we still think it could be a very useful tool of reference for people with an interest in the Chinese economy and the reform process of its SOEs, economists, foreign investors,
Chinese investors, MBA and EMBA students, or specialists in emerging economies.