Hobbes &amp; Weber vs. Marx &amp; Mao: The political economy of decentralization in China

Andors, Steve

doi:10.1080/14672715.1974.10410757

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“…Consequently, similar Social Structures (such as family) and Relationship Rules (such as Filial Piety) are prevalent in these societies and in their organizations. That these beliefs and values are rather undistinguishable among these countries becomes clear when one considers the works of many researchers together (Redding, 1990;Hofstede, 1980Hofstede, , 1991Bond et al, 1987;Chang, 1998;Sackman, 1997;Andors, 1974Andors, , 1977Nevis, 1983). For instance, Redding (1990) makes the case of Western Capitalism versus Confucian Capitalism in China.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Korean Management Practicesmentioning

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Information systems outsourcing: Replicating an existing framework in a different cultural context

Samaddar

Kadiyala

2005

J of Ops Management

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In order for any field of study to refine the promising concepts and weed out the weaker concepts it is necessary that researchers revisit earlier studies from time to time and evaluate their general applicability to new contexts. Replication is an important technique for researchers to embrace in order to achieve this goal. In this study, we test one of the frameworks of technology outsourcing developed in the West, by changing the cultural context. Following Kodak's historic outsourcing decision, technology outsourcing has assumed significant importance among researchers and practitioners. Most of the research in relation to technology outsourcing has been conducted in the Western culture (including the USA and the UK), so our goal in this study is to extend the understanding of technology outsourcing research conducted in the West to another culture-that of Korea, through replication.We focused on information systems (IS) outsourcing decision making as a case in point and found both similarities and dissimilarities in relation to the current understanding of the same. These similarities and differences in turn, reveal the distinctions between the Western and the Korean approaches toward achieving outsourcing success. The similarities are the partial preference for short-term contracts and contracting out to external vendors. However, the two cultures differed in their decision making in the way they pursue contractual completeness, whether in-house departments competes or not, design of contract to include partnership measures, criticality of tasks outsourced, familiarity with the outsourced task, postponing a few outsourcing decisions, and withholding a piece of a contract as bait. We also found ''trust'' and ''task partitioning to gain advantage of varied expertise'' to be important for achieving outsourcing success in the Korean organization. In addition, we observed that outsourcing success is achieved by maximizing reliability and relationship in the Korean context rather than by maximizing flexibility and control, as was observed in the Western context. We argue that this difference is a function of cultural diversity. #

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Section: Characteristics Of Korean Management Practicesmentioning

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Information systems outsourcing: Replicating an existing framework in a different cultural context

Samaddar

Kadiyala

2005

J of Ops Management

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“…Maoist ideology was even more opposed to material incentives than Confucianism, suspecting them of encouraging individual interest, power, and privilege (Andors, 1977;Eckstein, 1975;Oh, 1976;Whyte et al, 1977); reducing personal initiative (China News Summary, 1975); and necessitating massive control (Andors, 1974). Like Confucius, Mao also emphasized the motivating power of emulation, with labor heroes setting an example for others to follow (Mao, 1977).…”

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From political praise to stock options: Reforming compensation systems in the people's republic of China

Shenkar

Chow

1989

Human Resource Management

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“…According to the Dazhai and Daqing models, individual material rewards will be linked with &dquo;ideologicar or attitudinal criteria, while bonuses and raises will be, whenever possible, tied to group rather than to individual performance. Coupled with this is a constant stress on the social and political significance of work (Hoffman, 1974;Andors, 1969Andors, , 1974.…”

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Marxism, Maoism, and Social Change

Walder

1977

Modern China

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Engels, in his preface to Capital, Volume 3, as part of his running commentary on &dquo;determinist&dquo; Marxists, warned that the reader should not expect to find &dquo;fixed, cut-to-measure, once and for all applicable definitions in Marx's works&dquo;: It is self-evident that where things and their interrelations are conceived, not as fixed, but as changing, their mental images, the ideas, are likewise subject to change and transformation, and they are not encapsulated in rigid definitions, but are developed in their historical or logical process of formation. [Marx, 1967b: 13-14] According to Engels, then, Marx's terms are meant to express a conception of things and their interrelations-&dquo;not as fixed, but as changing&dquo;-and, consequently, the definitions of these terms must also change. This usage of terms led Pareto to comment that [126] Marx's words are like bats: one can see in them both birds and mice (Ollman, 1971: 3). Accordingly, when Marx laid out his materialist conception of history in his &dquo;Preface&dquo; to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, he stated that the &dquo;mode of production&dquo; determines &dquo;the general process of social, political and intellectual life&dquo; (Marx, 1971: 20-21). Yet, on the very same page, the same &dquo;determining&dquo; role is attributed to &dquo;relations of production,&dquo; &dquo;economic conditions of production,&dquo; &dquo;productive forces,&dquo; &dquo;the economic foundation,&dquo; the &dquo;social forces of production,&dquo; and the &dquo;social conditions of existence.&dquo; These terms not only refer to different things-in the case of &dquo;social conditions of existence&dquo; this is quite clear-but, more important, some of them seem to include in their meaning the parts of society that Marx says they &dquo;determine&dquo; (Ollman, 1971: 6-7). Property relations, as a system of legal claims, for example, come under the heading of &dquo;superstructure,&dquo; but they are also an integral part of the &dquo;relations of production,&dquo; which are part of the &dquo;economic base&dquo; and which in turn &dquo;determine&dquo; the superstructure (Ollman, 1971: 6-7). The same is true for our previous example of the system of credit and national debt in Great Britain's early industrialization. When viewed from one perspective, credit and taxation are merely a set of laws within the legal and political superstructure. Yet how can a system of credit and taxation be clearly separated from the economic base? Does it not clearly include also, within its very definition, the actual workings of an economic system?. ' Until we examine the ways in which Marx conceived of these definitions and categories, his usage of definitions seems at best inconsistent, if not altogether haphazard. For Marx, concepts like &dquo;superstructure,&dquo; &dquo;economic base,&dquo; and &dquo;relations of production&dquo; could not be clearly distinguished and separated from one another because they do not exist, in reality, as separate entities. These conc...

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Hobbes & Weber vs. Marx & Mao: The political economy of decentralization in China

Cited by 13 publications

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Information systems outsourcing: Replicating an existing framework in a different cultural context

Information systems outsourcing: Replicating an existing framework in a different cultural context

From political praise to stock options: Reforming compensation systems in the people's republic of China

Marxism, Maoism, and Social Change

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