Contract management responsibility system and profit incentives in China's state-owned enterprises

China Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 98-112

  Choe, Chongwoo ^a   Yin, Xiangkang ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

China's state enterprise reform; D21; Managerial contracts; P31; Profit incentives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042186936     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1043-951x(99)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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