Enterprise, Organisation, and Technology in China. A Socialist Experiment, 1950-1971

Le Centre d’études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine (CECMC-CCJ) organise une rencontre autour du dernier ouvrage de Philip Scranton (Rutgers University), Enterprise, Organisation, and Technology in China. A Socialist Experiment, 1950-1971 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019).

En présence de l’auteur et avec pour discutants :

• Patrick Fridenson (EHESS)
• François Gipouloux (CNRS)
• Alessandro Stanziani (EHESS)

Date

• Lundi 13 mai 2019, 10h00-12h00

Lieu

• EHESS – Salle BS1_28 (sous-sol)
  54 bd Raspail – 75006 Paris

Présentation du livre

Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival resources, it details and assesses the course of technical and organizational experimentation at state-owned, cooperative, and private enterprises as the PRC strove to construct a socialist economy through trial-and-error initiatives. Core questions treated are: How did Chinese enterprises operate, evolve, experiment, improvise and adjust during the PRC’s first generation? What technological initiatives were crucial to these processes, necessarily developed with limited expertise and thin financial resources? How could constructing “socialism with Chinese characteristics” have helped lay foundations for the post-1980 “Chinese miracle,” as the PRC confidently entered the 21^st century while Soviet and Central European socialisms crumbled? And what might current-day Western managers and entrepreneurs learn from Chinese practice and performance a half-century ago? 

Readers can anticipate a granular, bottom-up analysis of how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how managers and technicians emerged after the capitalist exodus, how organizations experimented and adapted, and how the controversies and convulsions of the PRC’s early decades fashioned durable technical and organizational capabilities. 

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Vous êtes tous cordialement invités.

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