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The Influence of Overseas Business Associations on Law-making in China: A Case Study*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2016

Elaine Sio-ieng Hui  and
Chris King-chi Chan
Elaine Sio-ieng Hui*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University.
Chris King-chi Chan
Affiliation:
City University of Hong Kong. Email: [email protected].
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Email: [email protected] (corresponding author).
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Abstract

Through an investigation of the Shenzhen Collective Consultation Ordinance and the Guangdong Regulations on the Democratic Management of Enterprises, this article demonstrates how transnational capital in China deploys its associational power alongside its structural economic power to lobby and pressure the national and local governments to advance its own interests. In addition, building upon the ideas of Hall and Soskice about the varieties of capitalism, the authors have developed the concept of “varieties of transnational capital” to account for the differing positions of overseas business associations regarding the two laws. We find that these positions are shaped by two determining factors: a) where the associations are situated in global production chains, and b) the industrial relations model in their home countries.

摘要

通过对《深圳市集体协商条例》和《广东省企业民主管理条例》的个案调查, 本本文展示了在中国的跨国资本如何通过结社性的力量和结构性的经济力量向国家和地方政府游说和施壓, 以推進其利益。此外, 本文作者以霍尔和索斯克斯 “资本主义多样性” 的理论为基础, 发展了 “跨国资本多样性” 的概念, 以此来解释不同的海外商会为何对中国两个立法采取不同的态度。本文认为, 他们不同的立场主要源于两个决定性的因素: 一是他们在全球生产链中的位置, 二是他们所在母国的产业关系模式。

Keywords

Chinalabourbusiness associationsassociational powertransnational capitallegislation中国劳工商会结社性力量跨国资本立法
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The China Quarterly , Volume 225 , March 2016 , pp. 145 - 168
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Footnotes

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The authors would like to thank Tim Pringle, Christoph Scherrer, Chen Feng, Violaine Delteil and Khalid Nadiv for their comments on previous versions of this article and research assistance. They also thank FNV Mondiaal and the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong (Project No. CityU 140313) for their financial support to different stages of this research.

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