State-owned enterprise sector, 2021

State-owned enterprise reform

China's agricultural sector was the first to experience significant success from reform, but initial reform efforts in the late 1970s were directed at state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In 1978, when farmers started to experiment-secretly and illegally-with the now famous household responsibility system (HRS) in several villages in Anhui province, the government was already introducing the first s...

Forthcoming in China Economic Quarterly State - Owned Enterprise

Little is known about the magnitude of China’s SOE labor redundancy and the patterns and determinants of job creation. Such knowledge gap makes it difficult for decision-makers to provide prescriptions for China’s labor problems. This paper uses a panel data of Chinese provinces between 1986 to 1996 to estimate China’s SOE labor redundancy, and patterns and determinants of job creation in China...

Evolutionary sensemaking in Enterprise Applications Implementation: Insights from a State-Owned Enterprise in China

The successful implementation of Enterprise Applications (EAs) hinges on a process of organizational sensemaking that enables the focal organization to gain an understanding of the unique contextual issues within and surrounding the organization, and continuously monitor and re-interpret these issues so that the approach to EA implementation can be modified or re-aligned accordingly. Yet, littl...

Changes in User Attitudes and User Expectation: A Longitudinal Study of a Thai State Owned Enterprise

With a paucity of longitudinal studies done in the stream of Technology Acceptance Model, a longitudinal case study research was conducted with a large state Owned enterprise (SOE) in Thailand that has gone through an ERP implementation project. To provide a more comprehensive perspective of the process of user acceptance of ERP, data were collected from two phases of the implementation process...

Policy Burdens, Soft Budget Constraint and State-owned Enterprise Reform in China