Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing as Positive Factors in the Reform of Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 147-177

  Tseo, George K Y ^a   Sheng, Hou Gui ^c   Peng Zhu, Zhang ^b   Lihai, Zhang ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^c QINGDAO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Buy outs; Empowerment; Equity; Privatization; Stock ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642477697     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014383104773684597     Document Type: Review

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