Organizational Structure, Policy Learning, and Economic Performance
Evidence from the Chinese Commune
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2423720 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joshua Eisenman (0000-0002-4709-4353, The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author), Feng Yang (0009-0008-1432-2234, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2378-0231 • E-ISSN: 2378-0231 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2378023118757650 |
| OpenAlex | W2790108534 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 57 |
Using original county-level panel data on Chinese communes over two decades, 1958 to 1979, this article builds upon existing theories about the influence of organizational size and structure on institutional performance. We found a consistent and robust interaction effect among the size of the commune (i.e., the coordination level) and its subunits, the brigade (i.e., the supervisory level) and production teams (i.e., the working level), on agricultural productivity. Future work on the relationship between organizational performance and size would likely benefit from including such interaction variables. We also provide evidence that to create a more productive institution, county-level officials learned from their most productive neighbors and adjusted the size of their communes accordingly. This work explains the role of organizational structure as a driver of economic performance and how policy diffusion occurred during China's Maoist era-a period generally treated as a monolith rather than a period of institutional change
Business · China · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Institution · Management · Organizational learning · Organizational structure · Political science · Productivity · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Engineering · Social Capital and Networks
Organizations and environments
Structuring Organizations
Markets and Hierarchies : analysis and antitrust implications
Bayesian learning in social networks
The Chinese Economy. Transitions and Growth
Equality of educational opportunity
The Rise and Decline of Nations
De-collectivisation of agriculture in China, 1979–82
Calamity and Reform in China
Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981
The Logic of Collective Action
Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
The psychology of social impact
Agrarian Transformations in China and Vietnam
China's political economy — the quest for development since 1949
Prelude to Revolution
Collectivization and China's Agricultural Crisis in 1959-1961
The Impact of China's Economic Reforms on Agricultural Productivity Growth
Some Effects of Organization Size on Member Attitudes and Behavior
The shaping of an institutional choice
Why Collaborate? Issue-Linkage and International Regimes
Kernel Regularized Least Squares
The Dissemination of Culture
Learning and foreign policy
Collective action as helping behavior
Dispensability of member effort and group motivation losses
The Commune in Chinese Development
Structural Inertia and Organizational Change
The Household Responsibility System in China's Agricultural Reform
Growth and Decline Processes in Organizations
A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion
The Role of the People's Commune in Rural Development in China
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies
Modeling Internal Organizational Change
Institutions and Work Incentives in Collective Farming in Maoist China
Chinese Land Reform in Long-Run Perspective and in the Wider East Asian Context
Introducing Influence Processes into a System of Collective Decisions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |