ABSTRACT
As announced in the previous chapter, the main theme of this chapter will be to look at the variety of mothers-in-law that a large Chinese stateowned enterprise has to please and the ways they affect the management of that company. From among those organizations, I will pay particular attention to the way such an enterprise is embedded in the Communist Party organization. The role of the Party has always intrigued Western observers, academically and otherwise, but an in-depth study of its relation with a present-day Chinese enterprise has so far been obstructed by the lack of a proper organizational model. In this chapter I will attempt to describe this relation in terms of Social Integration theory.
