By Charlotte P. Lee
Charlotte P. Lee considers organizational adjustments happening in the modern chinese language Communist celebration (CCP), analyzing the party's renewed emphasis on an understudied yet middle set of firms: party-managed education academies or 'party schools'. This nationwide community of corporations allows social gathering gurus to exert political regulate over the data, talents, and careers of officers. Drawing on in-depth box study and novel datasets, Lee unearths that the get together college approach has now not been resistant to broader market-based reforms yet as an alternative has included a number of the related options as actors in China's hybrid, state-led deepest area. within the look for profit and standing, faculties have up to date education content material and turn into extra entrepreneurial as they compete and collaborate with household and foreign actors. This booklet attracts awareness to superb dynamism positioned in the get together, in political agencies idea resistant to swap, and the transformative influence of the marketplace on China's political process.
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Adaptation, when it is either anticipatory or reactive, is not without risks. An organization, in the process of attempting to adapt to changes in its environment, may choose unwisely and inadvertently set in motion the conditions for its decline (Hall 1976; Zammuto and Cameron 1985). There is also a degree of uncertainty to environmental change such that an adaptive change made in response to one shift in the environment may lead to organizational maladjustment in the face of a different environmental context.
Appendix B provides an overview of my field research strategy, a summary of interviewee data, and comparative analysis of field sites. Précis of study 27 danger of granting too much autonomy to local actors. Looking beyond the China case, the theory and findings presented here offer an explanation for how a hierarchical ruling party may develop the capacity to adapt to systemic shocks and uncertainty. In China, change initiated in one realm has created pressures for adaptation in others: the decision to introduce market reforms to China’s state-managed economic sector has motivated shifts in the organizational geography and survival strategies of political institutions.
Ironically, while redundancy may be introduced to mitigate uncertainty, it can introduce uncertainties of its own. These uncertainties can include whether innovations preserve the existing system or plant the seeds of instability. In a hierarchical political system such as China’s, innovations often carry the risk of strengthening the hand of locales against that of the central state. Another concern is the opportunity cost of devoting resources to a redundant function when those resources might be committed elsewhere.
