Private Business and Economic Reform in China

Argues that the existence and maintenance of an evil organization is a complex interaction of individuals, organizations, and environmental factors. The book achieves five distinct objectives: it gives professionals, scholars, and students a broad understanding of evil from a conceptual and practical vantage; it provides a scientific paradigm for interdisciplinary research and theory; it serves as a synthesis linking the divergent, interdisciplinary perspectives on evil into a cohesive whole, making it the seminal work in the field; it provides a better understanding of the potential relationships between organizational evil and various aspects of organizational functioning; and it integrates a philosophical and pragmatic understanding of organizational evil into a coherent approach to management and administration in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Biography

Susan Young is a visiting fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen, where she is pursuing research on ownership and control issues in China’s rural enterprises. She formerly taught Chinese language and studies at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, and has made frequent visits to Sichuan, where her fieldwork is based.