Dehybridization in the face of the party-state: a longitudinal case study of a Chinese SOE's corporate governance responses to institutional change
This longitudinal case study identifies corporate governance responses in a Chinese state-owned enterprise facing institutional logic multiplicity and demands to shoulder sociopolitical responsibilities beyond economic responsibility. We find that overseas listing led to the incorporation of market...
| Published in: | Journal of business ethics |
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| Authors: | ; ; |
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2023
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| In: |
Journal of business ethics
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| Further subjects: | B
State-owned enterprise
B Decoupling B Organizational translation B Corporate governance B Hybrid organizing B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift B Institutional logic change |
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| Summary: | This longitudinal case study identifies corporate governance responses in a Chinese state-owned enterprise facing institutional logic multiplicity and demands to shoulder sociopolitical responsibilities beyond economic responsibility. We find that overseas listing led to the incorporation of market logic into an enterprise in which party-state logic prevailed. The prioritization of sociopolitical responsibilities vis-à-vis economic responsibility has shifted through three phases, reflecting changes in institutional logic centrality amid changing politico-institutional and firm conditions. In response, the enterprise developed hybrid corporate governance structures based first on decoupling (2001-2011) and then on translation of a "foreign" corporate governance model to fit the domestic context (2012-2016) but has since sought to dehybridize by strengthening the state-controlled governance structure (2017-2019). Our study contributes to the varieties-of-capitalism approach to corporate governance and offers perspectives on institutional change, institutional logic, and hybrid organizing as well as the implicit ethical issue. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-0697 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04879-0 |