Supplies the complicated historical background to understanding the development of family businesses in China from the late 19th century to the present. Using the example of the Rong family, China 's most prominent industrialist family in pre-1949 China, examines the organizational structure and transformation of Chinese family firms when it comes to kinship alliances, managerial hierarchies, and local networks.
Accentuates the result of the family business to important political disasters, presents how they dealt with the transition to a socialist government in 1949, and interprets the success of overseas Chinese family business in addition to the resurrection of family business networks in the aftermath of China's economic reforms.
Rong Family A Chinese Business History, Chinese Version case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: November 09, 2007 PRODUCT #: 312C01-HCB-CHI
This is just an excerpt. This case is about ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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