The Evolution of Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms Township-Village Enterprises Revisited

Township and Village Enterprises in China

All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full acknowledgement is given. Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) have played a significant role in the growth of the Chinese economy since the economic reforms of 1978. This paper analyses the productive efficiency of a cross section of TVEs in the manufactur...

CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE DISCUSSION PAPER NO.155 June 1993 CHINESE TOWNSHIP VILLAGE ENTERPRISES AS VAGUELY DEFINED COOPERATIVES

This paper concerns the paradoxes and dilemmas that the very successful "Chinese model" presents for transition theory. The "Chinese model" is centered on the development of township-village enterprises. The main purpose of this paper is to make the case that TVE's are not just some form of disguised capitalist institution; they are much better described as "vaguely defined cooperatives" meanin...

SOURCES OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY FOR CHINA'S TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE ENTERPRISES

United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Industrial Development Organization Energy Conservation and GHG Emissions Reduction in Chinese Township and Village Enterprises – Phase II Project of Government of the People’s Republic of China Project Number: CPR/99/G31 Final Independent Evaluation

Stability in Instability. China's TVEs and the Evolution of Property Rights

For two decades economic and social stability in China's rural areas has been based on the successful evolution of township village enterprises. These enterprises, however, feature property rights structures which according to conventional property rights theory should make these enterprises highly inefficient and prone to quick dissolution. But as closer analysis indicates, exactly these ambig...