ABSTRACT
The burgeoning non-state sector of China's economy has prompted both Chinese and foreign scholars to place China within the East Asian developmental model, alongside the "Four Little Dragons" of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Some Chinese academics and policy-makers have made an effort to examine Japanese management philosophy and Japanese enterprise culture. Economically, China is a "late-late developer", and is imbued with an impatient catch-up mentality in much the same way Japan was in the last century. The organization-oriented system, exemplified by the Japanese model, holds a different attitude toward labor. The state-oriented system and the organization-oriented system overlap in these particular aspects, including denial of individual interests, but the objects of identification are different. In the industrial sector, decentralization meant the gradual release of state enterprises from the control of the Party-state and the command economy.
