Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Economic Market and Political Market -- Competing to Win -- Particularism under the Plan -- Competitive Advantage in Economic Transition -- Economic Competition -- The Local Developmental State -- Dual Marketization -- Outline of the Book -- 1 Chinese Industrial Enterprises: A Bird's-Eye View -- The Organizational Setting -- Institutional Change: Reform and the Rise of Markets -- Uneven Pace of Marketization -- Performance Variation -- 2 Central Planning and Its Decline -- The Hierarchy of Differential Treatment: Cases in Point -- Northern Machinery Factory -- No. 2 Polyester Fiber Factory -- Red Star Cotton Weaving Plant -- Structure and Choice -- Marketization Led by Newcomers -- Flying Horse Motors Company -- Peak Construction Equipment Factory -- Modern Housewares Company -- Everbright Heating Device Coompany -- Rainbow Joint Pipe Factory -- Adaptations by Old Enterprises -- Driving Forces of Marketization: Questions -- 3 The Rugged Terrain of Competition -- Decentralization: An Overview -- Resource Allocation -- Regulation -- Distribution of Liabilities -- Implications for Industrial Firms -- Particularism in Resource Allocation -- Selective Enforcement of Regulations -- Uneven Burdens -- Summary -- 4 Referee as Player: Menaces and Opportunities for Industrial Firms -- Main Features of Backyard Profit Centers -- Competition -- Input Supplies -- Output Production and Sales -- Transaction -- Voluntary Transactions -- Coerced Sales and Purchases -- Collusion -- Profit Transfer -- Asset Transfer -- Summary -- 5 Erosion of Authority Relations: A Tale of Two Localities -- The Local State as a Corporate Entity -- Mutual Monitoring under Central Planning.

Basic Structures of Grassroots Governments -- Growth of Exchange Relations -- Enhanced Interdependence and Give-and-Take in Ad Hoc Contracting -- Expanding the Gray Area of State Action -- Sharing the Spoils: Co-Optation of Potential Spoilers -- Mechanisms at Work -- Structural Variations -- 6 Favor Seeking and Relational Constraints -- Personal Networks and "Third Party Effect" -- Favor Seeking and State Agents' Vested Interests -- Crowded Political Market -- Collusion and Whistle-Blowing -- Summary -- 7 Competition, Economic Growth, and Latent Problems -- The Rise and Decline of Monopoly Profits -- Entry and Expansion of New Enterprises in the Nonstate Sector -- Breakaway of State Enterprises from the Plan -- Competitive Favor Seeking and Economic Growth -- The Other Side of the Story -- Overbuilding and Underutilization of Capacity -- From Production-Based Profit Making to Asset Stripping -- Predation on Less Favored Parties -- Summary and Reflections -- Conclusion -- Dualism in Marketization -- Mutual Inducement and Accommodation -- Collusion among State Agents -- Competitive Favor Seeking and Institutional Change -- Markets and the State in China's Economic Transition -- Appendix A Statistical Data Sources -- Data Sets -- 1992-7 National Industrial Firm Data Sets -- Industrial Firm Data Sets for Provinces A and B -- 1986 CASS-World Bank Survey -- 1992 CASS-World Bank Survey -- 1993 Beijing University and Zhongguo Qingnian Bao Survey -- Further Note -- Appendix B Methodological Note on Case Studies -- The Factories -- The Two Local Governments -- Bibliography -- Part I. Chinese Materials (Cited by Full Name or Abbreviation of Author/Publication) -- Part II. English Materials (Cited by Last Name of Author or Full Title of Publication) -- Index.