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| Tables | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Set of Case Studies | |
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| Coverage of the Book and Organization | |
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| The Targeted Readership | |
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| Multiple Principals in Principal-Agent | |
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| Analysis Analytic Framework | |
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| Facts To Be Explained | |
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| The Property Rights Model and the Basic Hypothesis | |
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| History of Property Rights | |
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| Over State-owned Enterprises | |
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| Principal-Agent Analysis Applied to Supervision Over Enterprises | |
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| Property Rights in General in the People's Republic of China Hierarchy Among Principals | |
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| Appendix: Case Studies of Supervisory Authority Over Enterprises | |
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| Planning As Coordination | |
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| The Macroeconomic Setting Plan Fulfillment by the Individual Enterprise | |
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| The Ratchet Effect Syndrome | |
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| Hypothesis As To Planning Analysis of Sample Data | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: Planning Materials on Individual Enterprises | |
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| Multiple Prices and Equilibrium | |
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| Price Stage Analysis of Industrial Procurement | |
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| Procurement Data From the Sample | |
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| Multiple Prices and Equilibrium Analysis | |
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| Kornai's "Soft Budget Constraint" | |
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| The Incentives Facing the Enterprises | |
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| Incentives Specific to Upper Managers | |
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| Incentives Common to the Labor | |
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| Force As a Whole | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix: Regressions for Incentives Common to the Labor Force As a Whole | |
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| Elements of Price | |
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| Sales Tax and Profits | |
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| Materials Purchases and Wages | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Internal Organization of the Enterprise | |
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| Party Committee versus Director Control Within the Enterprise Trade | |
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| Unions, Workers' Congresses, and Democratic Management | |
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| Foremen and Political Cadres | |
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| Conclusion, Including Evaluations of Efficiency | |
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| Thematic Summary | |
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| Allocation of Labor and Determination of Wages | |
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| The Pre-reform and Reform Years: Differences and Continuities | |
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| Efficiency Evaluations | |
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| Appendix: The Chinese Incentive System in State Industry | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |