scholarly journals “Crazy Jack” and the “Gay CEO”: Visions, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese State in the New Digital Economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-85
Author(s):  
Marina Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Business Leader ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
To Receive

This article analyses the visions, careers, and companies of Jack Ma of Alibaba and Geng Le of Blue City. Jack Ma is a well-known business leader and visionary, whereas the less well-known Geng Le only began to receive more attention since launching a successful gay dating app in 2012. The article focuses on the personal narratives and visions of these two IT entrepreneurs. It provides new perspectives on the role of individual entrepreneurs in relation to the Chinese state’s global ambitions and vision of creating a “strong internet country.” It argues that the commercialisation and platformisation of the Chinese internet, and the growing transnational nature of Chinese IT companies, serve to make them more, not less, co-dependent of the state and its visions. The internet’s emancipatory potential is today increasingly conflated with consumption, and online spaces and social relations are subject to both commodification and datafication.

Governmental Governance of Megaprojects: The Case of EXPO 2010 Shanghai

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Zhai ◽  
Tuomas Ahola ◽  
Yun Le ◽  
Jianxun Xie
Keyword(s):  
Resource Selection ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Leadership Accountability ◽  
Selection Decisions ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Organization Construction

While the governance of Western megaprojects is indirectly influenced by governments through legislation and regulations, the Chinese state actively oversees and controls projects of societal importance. To provide clarity on the role of the state in Chinese megaprojects, we carried out a case study focusing on EXPO 2010 Shanghai. Our analysis revealed that through a project-specific organization Construction Headquarter (CHQ), the Chinese state executes administrative strength, forces authorities to temporarily integrate their processes for the benefit of the project, influences contractor and resource selection decisions, induces leadership accountability, and promotes shared project values.

scholarly journals Implementation of the Function of Maximizing the Security Level in the Administration of Justice in the Digital Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (Especial II) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Damir Khamitovich Valeev ◽  
Anas Gaptraufovich Nuriev
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Security Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dialectical Analysis

The research analyses the implementation of the role of maximizing the level of security in the administration of justice in the context of the digital economy. Methodologically, the documentary observation research technique and, to process sources, sociological-dialectical analysis were used. Digitization as a transformational factor of many branches of social relations implies dependence on the implementation of a series of interdependent legal facts with digital technologies so that the action has a legal and concrete result. The digital level as a new platform for the implementation of a number of public functions posing new challenges for the public administration system and also determines the status of new functions that can provide a "digital future" with a positive development dynamic. Conclusion mode everything indicates that, these new functions can be austable in order to maximize security in the implementation of public functions in response to new threats. Particularly sensitive is the area of justice administration, which is also actively introducing many digital tools into the case-resolution process.

scholarly journals STATE PERSONNEL POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF INFORMATION AND ECONOMIC CONFRONTATION

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.I. Semenova ◽  
◽  
M.F. Fridman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The State ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
World Model ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
The One

This article is devoted to the most important issue of ensuring an innovative breakthrough in socio-economic development in the conditions of information and economic confrontation. Today, humanity is entering an era of a fundamentally different system of social relations, values and meanings. The emergence of a multipolar world model increases the competition of developed countries, on the one hand, and weakens the role of the state in society, on the other. Economic sanctions significantly hinder innovative development, so the state, as one of the main social institutions, still needs qualitatively new, more productive, innovative solutions, the emergence and implementation of which is impossible without appropriate personnel: researchers, analysts, developers, managers and workers.

scholarly journals Understanding China’s Economic Success: “Embeddedness” with Chinese Characteristics

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Xing
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Active Role ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
State And Local

<p class="1Body">This study attempts to provide a framework for understanding the role of the “embeddedness” in China’s economic success reflected by a unique embedded integration of state-market-society relations. “Embeddedness with Chinese characteristics” is the central concept of this study for analyzing how cultural and political uniqueness influences economic activities and shapes distinctive institutional forms. In order to grasp the factors behind the Chinese economic success, it is important to understand how the disembedded forces of marketization and commodification were balanced by the embedded forces of socio-cultural and political structures. These historically and culturally shaped structures, such as the active role of the state and local governments, the variety of forms of property and business ownership, the traditional culture of clientele-based social relations, etc., provide rich empirical context to explain and analyze the “embedded” hegemony in transitional China. The first part of the this paper provides a conceptual framework for understanding socio-cultural and political embeddedness in China and the second part analyzes some characteristics of the state-market-society embedded process during its economic development in the past decades. The conclusion is that China’s economic reform and success manifest a long and innovative grinding-in process of state-market-society relations.</p>

The Political Economy of Cropping in Maoist and Dengist China: Hebei Province and Shulu County, 1949–90

1994 ◽  
Vol 137 ◽  
pp. 63-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Blecher ◽  
Wang Shaoguang
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
The State ◽  
Hebei Province ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Central State ◽  
County Governments ◽  
Chinese State

Chinese state socialism has, for many years, politicized what crops the country's farmers plant. By doing so, it has transformed the agriculture radically and repeatedly. The state has adopted some strikingly different policy directions and modalities during both the Maoist and Dengist periods. Cleavages between the state and rural society have been opened, closed and re-opened more than once. The political importance and role of intermediate levels of the Chinese state – in particular, provincial and county governments – in affecting policy, mediating between society and the central state, and pursuing their own interests has long been sensed by scholars and Chinese politicians. But they remain largely unspecified.

Corruption and its Shadow: An Anthropological View of Corruption in China

1992 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 402-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Louis Rocca
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Chinese State

There has been little systematic research on corruption in China. Analyses so far often only reveal various cases of corruption and conclude by commenting on the retrograde aspect of the Chinese state. Work of this nature also tends to be too static – not considering the historical and cultural dimensions of politics – and too superficial – just concentrating on anecdotal aspects of corruption. As a result, one could quite simply conclude that what is required is a Weberian bureaucracy, which would be both rational and efficient, though without explaining how this should come about.However, in the light of works dealing with the shifting role of the state in societies which are undergoing change, the causes and nature of the phenomenon of “corruption” in China can be reassessed.

scholarly journals Rational Managerial Decisions in Business Sector

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-77
Author(s):  
Evgeny Shumkin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
Managerial Decision ◽  
Managerial Decisions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Area

This article features managerial decisions in business area, where the state plays the role of an external regulator of public relations and the main influencer. The legal tools that affect decision-making in business depend on the social mechanisms of business regulations. The author describes the position of the rational regulator that evaluates the decisions made by a business entity. Positive law is an integral part of objective reality and is a set of codified principles of legally appropriate behavior. Imperative and dispositive regulations of public relations in business area imply that a business entity can choose a model of managerial and entrepreneurial behavior based on the rules provided by the legislator. The active role of the state as an external regulator of the social relations reflects the problem of dissonance between legal and social norms underlying managerial decision-making, which leads to additional economic and transaction costs. The paper also features the problem of frustration conflict between the regulator and the business environment in the context of applying the rationality proposed by the state in business activities and the problem of choosing the right managerial decision for its subjects. By refusing from a radical and negative assessment of the entrepreneur's management decisions, the state can solve this problem. The state needs to be more tolerant to business risks as an alternative rationality, without identifying them with deviant behavior. By preventing alienation of business from the state, one can eliminate the conflict between law and favorable climate in business area, i.e. maximal convergence of social and legal norms.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF THE LAW AND PREVENTION OF ECONOMIC CRIME IN KOSOVO

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 1491-1495
Author(s):  
Arsim Dragaj ◽  
Alban Maliqi
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social System ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
International Stability

The issue, which we will be treated economic criminality and its features. Economic criminality, as a shaft theme, will be analyzed in several respects. In this paper of doctoral degree will be treated the economic criminality, which in the criminal code of Kosovo is defined as a criminal offense against the economy. Some of the criminal offenses against the economy will be analyzed along with their general and specific characteristics and will also be treated the penalties foreseen for these criminal offenses. Especially will be treated thee factors and causes that influence the occurrence of this criminality separately. Economic criminality has a degrading effect on the contemporary social system and regulation of the state. This kind of criminality as such as it is, poses a threat to Kosovo's stability and international stability, so the limits of the extent of economic criminality, we can say, there are not the country's borders. In Kosovo, economic criminality continues to be a very present and very negative phenomenon that is trying to emulate the development and consolidation of the state of Kosovo. The damage that comes as a result of economic criminality is far greater than any expense incurred for combating and preventing this phenomenon. Economic criminality is a dangerous phenomenon for society, as this kind of criminality is affecting the economic system and the economic and social relations of the country. Since the title of this issue is "The Forms and Causes of Economic Crime in Kosovo for the Period 2008-2011", so for the purpose of recognizing the presence and presence of this kind of criminality in Kosovo will be presented a criminal offense economic crime for the period from 2008 to 2017. In continuance there will be treated the procedural aspect and the role of the competent bodies for prosecuting, preventing and combating economic criminality such as the police, the prosecution and the court.

scholarly journals STATE REGULATION OF RURAL GREEN TOURISM

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Oksana RUDA
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Political Relations ◽  
Green Tourism ◽  
Partner Relations ◽  
Theoretical Foundations

The article is aimed at highlighting the theoretical foundations of state regulation of rural green tourism in Ukraine. Tourism is increasingly playing the role of an indicator of political relations between the states, a stabilizer of partner relations in the international political arena. Therefore, considering the great importance of tourism, the state has identified it as one of the priority directions of development of the national economy and culture, the sphere of realization of rights and needs of man and society, one of the defining components of the socio-economic policy of the state and regions. Today in Ukraine there are a number of problems that do not contribute to the development of the tourist industry, leading to a significant destruction of economic and social relations in the tourism sector. This article reveals the concept of "rural green tourism", as well as the significance of its development for the country's economy. The characteristic of the concept of "state regulation of rural green tourism" is given, and the system of methods of regulation is described. The necessity of marketing research as one of ways to improve the system of management of the rural tourism sector is presented. Formulated conclusions that include ways to develop and improve the state regulation of rural green tourism in Ukraine.

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