Organization and Management in the Midst of Societal Transformation: The People's Republic of China
描述了中国经济改革25年后的实证背景，评述了关于中国管理与组织的当代研究，并介绍了《组织科学》特刊的九篇论文，探讨企业转型如何影响企业间关系、机会结构、社会过程及个体行为，为组织学者提供研究议程。
Twenty-five years of economic reform has propelled China to the center of the world's economic stage. Based on current trends, in the foreseeable future China is likely to become the largest economy in the world. China's dramatic growth may be envied by other developing economies, but for management scholars it presents an exciting intellectual puzzle. In this paper we describe the empirical context of China today, review contemporary research on Chinese management and organizations, and describe the nine papers in this special issue of Organization Science. The papers provide a close examination of how massive corporate transformation in China has influenced interfirm relationships, affected opportunity structures and social processes, and modified individual behaviors within firms. We identify the many paradoxes in this intellectual terrain and present a guide to the challenging research agenda ahead. We recommend that scholars of organizations think deeply about China as a context and consider China as an empirical setting where the boundaries of existing knowledge on organizations can be extended.