1st Edition
Managing Legitimacy A “Salvage” Organizational Ethnography of a Private Tutorial Center in Beijing
By Zhen Tao
Copyright 2025
150 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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From an out-of-school perspective, the book studies private supplementary tutoring, also widely known as shadow education within the Chinese education landscape.
The author presents an organizational ethnography of Smart English, a private English tutoring center in Beijing. Using the concept of “organizational legitimacy” from organizational institutionalism as its framework, the study... Read more
1: Introduction 2: Fieldwork and Field Site 3: Response to Government Regulations: Gaining and Maintaining Regulatory Legitimacy 4: Providing Customer-Satisfied Services: Gaining, Maintaining, and Repairing Legitimacy 5: Self-media Advertising: Dispelling Public Doubts 6: Summary, Discussions, and Policy Implications
Biography
Zhen Tao is currently the Assistant Professor (Teaching) at the School of Humanities and Social Science and the Warden of Minerva College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. His research interests include education policy, shadow education, and higher education.
