ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the debates on corporate management pattern in Chinese society before the 1978 economic reform. It discusses how the reform at firm level during the 1980s and 1990s enhanced the tendencies commonly associated with the trading market for technology practices. The chapter examines the organizational mobilization means of local innovative firms. The opening up policy had Chinese industrial practitioners being gradually incorporated in global competition. In front of the global competition, a local Chinese firm could survive only through being incorporated into the global production networks of multinationals, which would usually come associated with its dependency on foreign partners for technologies. The more important method to provide an impetus to organizational mobilization was an open system that offered career opportunities for organizational members. The rise of local innovative firms can be regarded as part of the indigenous innovation of organizational patterns when the relevant firms were under huge pressure for survival and technological competitiveness.
