The Transformation of Collectively Owned Enterprises and its Outcomes in China, 2001-05

Jun Xia, Shaomin Li and Cheryl Long

World Development, 2009, vol. 37, issue 10, 1651-1662

Abstract: Summary Previous studies have primarily focused on the relative success of collectively owned enterprises (COEs) in China during the early years of reform, but they have ignored the agency problems inherent in this type of organizational form that may be an obstacle to further improving performance in a changing environment. Drawing on agency theory and the privatization literature, we argue that the transformed COEs in the ongoing organizational transformation process may achieve better performance by reducing agency costs. We examine a sample of COEs in Chinese manufacturing industries and track their ownership statuses from 2000 to 2005. Our findings reveal that the transformed firms achieved better performance than the traditional, untransformed COEs by mitigating agency problems.

Keywords: ownership; transformation; agency; problems; performance; collectively; owned; enterprises (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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