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"The rise of China and the rapid international expansion of major Chinese corporations such as Huawei Technologies have led to a great deal of fear and misunderstanding among Western commentators and policymakers about who controls these corporations and what their motives might be. This book argues that Chinese business corporations can be properly understood only within their ecosystems, in other words, as complex living organisms interacting dynamically with (and upon) a multilayered political, cultural, and ecological natural-human environment. Without adopting this holistic perspective and identifying the key defects of the current corporate ecosystem, the historical development and future direction of Chinese corporations will continue to be misread, leading to increased international tensions, missed opportunities to address the global environmental crisis, and continuing distortions in the world economy"--
List of contents
1. Why is Huawei so strange?; 2. An ecosystem for private enterprise growth: Alibaba, Ant Group, and SMEs; 3. State-owned enterprises: mutant dinosaurs or adaptive hybrids?; 4. The Communist Party and corporations; 5. Corruption and anti-corruption; 6. Guanxi: circulation of resources and corporate-political human relationships; 7. Legal contradictions in the corporate-political ecosystem; 8. Chinese corporations and the natural/human ecosystem: negative impacts; 9. China's eco-civilization dream vs. corporate-political ecosystem realities; 10. Conclusion: a Chinese ecological approach to re-forming the corporate ecosystem.
About the author
Colin S. C. Hawes is an Associate Professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Technology Sydney and a Research Fellow at the UTS Australia-China Relations Institute. He has published widely on Chinese corporate law and Chinese culture, including a previous book entitled The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture (2012).
Summary
Using vivid case studies, this book illuminates Chinese corporate behavior, challenging simplistic claims that corporations merely serve Communist Party goals. Examining corporations within their political/ecological context, it proposes workable solutions to their harmful impacts on the natural-human ecosystem.
