Organization Science articles from March 2004

Organization Science archives from March 2004

Organization and management in the midst of societal transformation: the People's Republic of China.
March 1, 2004... 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...

Capital structure in transition: the transformation of financial strategies in China's emerging economy.
March 1, 2004... During economic transition, firms must dramatically reduce their financial dependence on the state and begin to borrow from nonstate capital sources. This paper draws on institutional and resource dependence theories to examine this fundamental...

Entrepreneurs' access to private equity in China: the role of social capital.
March 1, 2004... This article examines the effect of entrepreneurs' social capital on investment decisions of venture capitalists. The empirical data is composed of 158 venture capital decisions in the People's Republic of China. We found that entrepreneurs'...

The institutional effects on strategic alliance partner selection in transition economies: China vs. Russia.
March 1, 2004... China and Russia represent major economies in transition from command economies, yet their paths to the market have differed greatly. Their divergent approaches have helped create distinct institutional environments. This study focuses on a...

Chinese organizations in transition: changing promotion patterns in the reform era.
March 1, 2004... Since the 1980s, the People's Republic of China has embarked on a path of economic transformation that has led to profound changes in organizations. Based on work histories of a sample of urban residents drawn from 14 Chinese cities in six...

Guanxi practices and trust in management: a procedural justice perspective.
March 1, 2004... Taking a procedural justice perspective, we examined the effect of guanxi practices in human resources management (i.e., making human resources management decisions on the basis of personal relationships) on employees' trust in management in...

Generation cohorts and personal values: a comparison of China and the United States.
March 1, 2004... This study investigated the generation cohort value orientations of 774 Chinese and 784 U.S. managers and professionals. The three Chinese generations (Consolidation, Cultural Revolution, Social Reform) since the establishment of Communist...

Rewards-allocation preferences of Chinese employees in the new millennium: the effects of ownership reform, collectivism, and goal priority.
March 1, 2004... The ownership restructuring of Chinese state-owned enterprises, launched in 1992, has been one of the most radical and far-reaching market-oriented reforms in the Chinese economy. We studied the effects of ownership reform and individuals'...

Employment relationships in China: do workers relate to the organization or to people?
March 1, 2004... This study investigates the contribution of organizational support and personal relations in accounting for Chinese workers' affective commitment to the organization for which they work and their organizational citizenship behavior. In a sample...

Organizational citizenship behavior in the People's Republic of China.
March 1, 2004... In recent years, Western scholars have increasingly emphasized the importance of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB)--employees' behavior and actions that are not specifically designated in their formal job duties. Almost the entire body...