West meets east: Understanding managerial incentives in Chinese SOEs

State-owned enterprises (SOE) are essentially extensions of the government and are therefore responsible for multi-task objectives. The incentive system for SOE managers consists of both monetary compensation and promotion within the bureaucratic system. Political promotion is key to understanding t...

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Main Authors: Qingquan Xin, Anze Bao, Fang Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-06-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309118301989
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Summary:State-owned enterprises (SOE) are essentially extensions of the government and are therefore responsible for multi-task objectives. The incentive system for SOE managers consists of both monetary compensation and promotion within the bureaucratic system. Political promotion is key to understanding the incentives of SOE managers. In the reform and opening up era, SOEs have been reformed and exposed to political and market forces. The design of incentive systems for SOE managers has thus become complicated and challenging. Our study provides important implications for this key issue of SOE reform. Keywords: SOE, Managerial incentives, Bureaucratic hierarchy, Political promotion
ISSN:1755-3091