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  • What Can the Research on Chinese Bureaucracy Do for Organization Theory?

  • Xueguang Zhou, Yuze Sui
  • Journal:
    Management and Organization Review / Volume 21 / Issue 1 / February 2025
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 May 2025, pp. 3-20
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  • Chinese bureaucracy – the organizational apparatus of Chinese governments – has played a significant role in China’s economic development and political control in the post-Mao era. In this paper, we draw on research on Chinese bureaucracy in both English and Chinese to highlight major findings in three areas: agency problems and incentive provision, the use of guanxi in policy implementation, and variable coupling among different parts of the bureaucracy. These three aspects are interrelated: agency problems induce the prevalence of informal institutions as an organizational response, which leads to variable coupling in Chinese bureaucracy. We discuss the issues and implications this literature presents for the further development of organization theory and the emerging research agenda.