The entrepreneurial state in China : real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin /

Duckett, Jane, 1964-

The entrepreneurial state in China : real estate and commerce departments in reform era Tianjin / Jane Duckett. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - 1 online resource (xi, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps - - Routledge studies on China in transition ; 5 . - Routledge studies--China in transition ; 5. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-262) and index.

Introduction Introduction: market reform and the state. The Chinese state from plan to market. Tianjin: the government of a city under reform Case studies in the emergence of state entrepreneurialism. The state administration of real estate and its reform. Market reform and its limits: entrepreneurialism in state real estate management departments. The state administration of commerce and its reform. The encroaching market: entrepreneurialism in state commerce departments Conclusion. China's entrepreneurial state. pt. I. 1. 2. pt. II. 3. 4. 5. 6. pt. III. 7.

Jane Duckett describes in detail new state business activities in China and explains why they have appeared. Using research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s, she argues that individual departments, within the Chinese state, are involved in the market economy through the establishment of their own businesses. The book demonstrates that many of these businesses are genuinely entrepreneurial in the sense of profit-seeking, risk-taking and productive, rather than rent-seeking, speculative or profiteering. This entrepreneurialism is an important new dimension of state activity in.

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Government business enterprises--China--Tianjin.
Government corporations--China--Tianjin.
Entrepreneurship--China--Tianjin.
Real estate management--China--Tianjin--Case studies.
Entreprises publiques--Chine--Tianjin.
Entrepreneuriat--Chine--Tianjin.
Immeubles--Gestion--Chine--Tianjin--Études de cas.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Development--Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Development--Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Development--General.
Commercial policy
Government corporations
Entrepreneurship
Government business enterprises
Real estate management
Economische hervormingen.
Ondernemerschap.
Onroerend-goedmarkt.


Tianjin (China)--Commercial policy.
China--Tianjin

Samfundsvidenskab Økonomi.


Electronic books.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.

HF1604.Z5 / T54 1998eb

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