Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises

"This truly outstanding book provides a much needed account of Chinese private enterprises as they move onto the world stage. The authors offer a managerial narrative of the rise of China's private sector, and rich and rare panoply of insightful interviews with leaders of major Chinese corporations. We see a new generation of leaders, with the vision necessary to establish Chinese private corporations at the cutting edge of technological change and organizational performance." (Victor Nee, Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, USA) "This book provides a unique insight into China's star private firms, which have achieved remarkable success under often adverse conditions. It highlights the role in that success of their leaders' ability to reflect, to learn and adapt. This book offers extremely important lessons for all who are practicing and studying leadership." (John Child, Chair of Commerce, University of Birmingham, UK) "The entrepreneurs have been the major driving force for China's economic success of the part three and half decades. This book provides both vivid stories and analytical conception of how the top private industrial leaders of China have survived and thrived in a legally unfriendly business environment." (Weiying Zhang, Sinar Mas Chair Professor of Economics, National School of Development, Peking University, China) "This book promises to be inspirational by presenting fascinating stories of legendary Chinese private business leaders attesting the tremendous transformative power of the Chinese entrepreneurial spirit. This book will be a great source of insight for practicing Chinese leadership as well as for scholarship and research." (Chao C. Chen, Professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers University, USA)

This original book presents in-depth research into thirteen successful Chinese private enterprises through interviews with their founder-entrepreneurs.

This original book presents in-depth research into thirteen successful Chinese private enterprises through interviews with their founder-entrepreneurs. While Chinese economic growth has focused primarily on governmental policies and institutional factors, Leadership of Chinese Private Enterprises proposes that the success of these firms was primarily due to the ‘visible hands’ of these entrepreneurs. The authors present insights into the managerial realities of four separate industries- Financial and insurance, IT and e-commerce, construction and real estate, and consumer goods. Through a critical evaluation of interviews, this book identifies the managerial recipe for entrepreneurial success in competitive and inhospitable environments and offers a model of private firm leadership and leadership principles that guide their strategies and relationships.