Management and Organizations in China: Expanding the Frontier of Global Knowledge
概述了中国作为组织行为研究重要场域的特点，包括企业规模、劳动力市场、政府影响和管理教育，旨在为学者提供研究背景。
China is a vital arena for contemporary research on organizations and organizational behaviour. At the macro level, it provides an interesting context for studying firms in a period of major economic and corporate transformations. In this context, China's economic and organizational systems differ from those in the other leading economies of the world on many dimensions. Firms remain small by global standards but they employ a work force of about 700 million, larger than that of any other economies on earth. Many markets are fragmented but hypercompetitive for both domestic and global firms. Governmental influence remains pervasive, with nearly a third of the economy remaining state controlled, but with the private sector expecting to soon surpass the state enterprises in production outputs. Participation in MBA and executive education programmes is popular among aspiring managers and companies, but systematic knowledge is lacking on how this distinctive context and its unparalleled rate of change affect organizations.