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Critical
Perspectives on China
Conveners:
Zhichang Zhu
Z.Zhu@hull.ac.uk,
Chris Smith
Chris.Smith@rhul.ac.uk,
Jos Gamble
J.Gamble@rhul.ac.uk,
Yuan Li
yuan.li.2007@marshall.usc.edu
It is now 30 years since
China's leaders committed to major reforms of its economic
system. A nation that had experienced two thousand years of
feudalism, a hundred years of semi-colonialist subjugation,
and fifty years of socialism, is once again transforming
itself: but into what?
The pressures and lures of
modernization and globalization have made pushed China to open
itself to the world system of capital, power, and culture. The
achievements of the reforms have been phenomenal: China has
averaged 9.4 percent GDP growth, has become the third-largest
exporter, has significantly improved the well-being of its
people, and has emerged as a world power. Along with rapid
development, however, serious new problems and dilemmas have
emerged. While economic growth has benefited large numbers, it
has also imposed great misery on others. Democratic
aspirations have been repressed. The environmental costs have
been staggering and continue to mount.
The purpose of this stream
is to discuss critically oriented research on China. We are
open to a variety of critical approaches, such as critical
discourse analysis, critical institutionalism, Marxist,
post-colonialist and postmodern perspectives.
Potential topics include but not limited to:
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Critical perspectives on multinational corporations in
China. The construction of corporate identity in China.
Management and labor control in China under conditions of
globalization. |
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diffusion of neo-liberal ideology to China. The diffusion of
western models of corporate governance, financial market,
and organizational practices. Globalization and local
invention, adoption and variation. |
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interplay between the state and the market in China.
Political economy and power relations in China's reform
process. The prevalence of hybrid organizational forms such
as collectively owned enterprises and township-village
enterprises. Restructuring of state-owned enterprises.
Analysis of specific industries and markets.
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Environmental issues in China. The emergence of
non-governmental organizations. Environmental policies and
practices. International collaborations on solving China's
environmental problems. |
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Consequences of globalization, benefits and costs. Social
mutations and their effects on different social categories. |
The
motivation for the workshop is simple: neither the PDW nor the
main program events at the AOM give us enough opportunity to
engage in in-depth discussion of papers in critical management
studies. So the workshop will be organized as a series of
parallel streams (working groups). Each stream will consist of
people who have contributed papers on a well-defined topic
(perhaps with some invited discussants), and the group will
work together over the course of the day-and-a-half, going
around the room discussing the papers in turn. In order to
maximize discussion, authors will not present their own
papers, but rather participants will be asked to present and
discuss each others' papers. We will also arrange a couple of
plenary sessions and some social time where all the
participants come together.
We are
yet to finalize the cost of the workshop, but based on present
estimates, we anticipate that the workshop will cost between
$400 and $550 for each participant, depending on whether they
choose to stay for two nights or three, and whether they
choose single or double rooms. The fee will include meals
(lunch and dinner on 7th and all 3 meals on 8th). We will
finalize the details quickly on this front.
If you wish to be part of this stream, please submit a 250
word abstract to
Z.Zhu@hull.ac.uk,
Chris.Smith@rhul.ac.uk,
J.Gamble@rhul.ac.uk,
and
yuan.li.2007@marshall.usc.edu
by January 15th, 2008. Please note that
submissions can be concurrently on review at the regular AOM
2008 conference as well. The submission of an abstract
constitutes a good-faith agreement to submit a full paper for
the stream by June 1, 2008 if the paper is accepted. The
final paper should be less than 8000 words in length
NEW
DATES (as of 30 December 2007)
Feb 20: Abstracts of papers submitted to stream conveners
March 10: Submissions accepted/rejected
June 15: Full papers submitted by this date for inclusion in
the Workshop.
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