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Mission |
| The aim of the Institute is to create and promote new modes of development in China and the West.Using ideas that integrate classical Chinese philosophy with constructive forms of Western thought, the Institute will address practical problems associated with economic growth, social change, globalization. It will also promote socially responsible business practices. The ideas and principles derived from this interactive process will not only assist China in its development process but also offer Western scholars new approaches to old policy enigmas. Thus, the mission of the China Institute is to promote a two-way exchange of ideas that can help solve concrete problems across cultures. |
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Background |
| China is rapidly absorbing ideas and technologies from the West. Chinese universities, research institutes, and government agencies have adopted Western textbooks and models of analysis, organization, and management.
China cannot uncritically adopt Western practices. Models that emerge from Western theories are often one-sided and subject to systemic failure. For example: 1. The Green Revolution treated hunger as a technical problem and raised output of certain grains, but it did so at a cost of increasing rural inequality and ecological problems. 2. Macro-economic models have been in intellectual disarray for twenty years and have left economies in tatters when national governments apply them. By following their own course, the Chinese set an unprecedented record for economic growth. 3. When American business had a crisis of confidence in the 1980s, their CEOs turned to East Asia for more flexible models of organizational management, implicitly recognizing the limits of Western models of management..... [全文] |
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