The Fruits of Opportunism : Noncompliance and the Evolution of China’s Supplemental Education Industry

作者：LeLin

出版社：UniversityofChicagoPress

副标题：NoncomplianceandtheEvolutionofChina’sSupplementalEducationIndustry

出版年：2022-8

页数：256

定价：$35.00

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780226821511

内容简介
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An in-depth examination of the regulatory, entrepreneurial, and organizational factors contributing to the expansion and transformation of China’s supplemental education industry.

Like many parents in the United States, parents in China, increasingly concerned with their children’s academic performance, are turning to for-profit tutoring businesses to help their children get ahead in school. China’s supplemental education industry is now the world’s largest and most vibrant for-profit education market, and we can see its influence on the US higher education system: more than 70% of Chinese students studying in American universities have taken test preparation classes for overseas standardized tests. The Fruits of Opportunism offers a much-needed thorough investigation into this industry. This book examines how opportunistic organizations thrived in an ambiguous policy environment and how they catalyzed organizational and institutional changes in this industry.

A former insider in China’s Education Industry, sociologist Le Lin shows how and why this industry evolved to become a for-profit one dominated by private, formal, nationally operating, and globally financed corporations, despite restrictions the Chinese state placed on the industry. Looking closely at the opportunistic organizations that were founded by marginal entrepreneurs and quickly came to dominate the market, Lin finds that as their non-compliant practices spread across the industry, these opportunistic organizations pushed privatization and marketization from below. The case of China’s Education Industry laid out in The Fruits of Opportunism illustrates that while opportunism leaves destruction in its wake, it can also drive the formation and evolution of a market.

作者简介
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Le Lin is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawai’i, Mānoa.

目录
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List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Opportunities for Opportunists: A Theoretical Excursion

Part I When Opportunists Produce Changes

2 Kill Your Competitors

3 Be More Aggressive Than Your Employees

4 Not Much English Taught at Our English School

Part II How Opportunism Persists amid Changes

5 Kidnapping Kids for Their Own Good

6 There Are No Professional Managers in China

7 Who Cares about Tuition Money

Conclusion

Appendix: List of All SEOs and Data Source

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

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见证了该书从special field readings-proposal-dissertation-book一系列的转变。与论文比起来中心论点基本一致，但是在分析结构，数据呈现，理论框架上都有了不小调整。与组织社会学理论的对话也更明确：强调选择-适应二分法互补的冲突与转换的可能，又进一步补充新制度主义下宏观与趋同理论的局限。论文里的"underdog"在书里被改成opportunist，概念转化…

因为和我感兴趣的领域接近所以很期待的一本。没有让人失望。比论文更上一层楼。基本框架是双重模糊性背景下关于机会主义和制度变迁──后者在论文里只有一篇引文罢了，而书里有了一个完善的框架（27页）。机会主义者在制度不完善的模糊地带攻城掠地，但往往在后续制度化的过程里很不适应新游戏规则，唯一的例外是新东方（点解？）。这一过程有三个大环境因素（30页）。同时对话了［新］制度主义和制度演化学者（适应还是选择？…

见证了该书从special field readings-proposal-dissertation-book一系列的转变。与论文比起来中心论点基本一致，但是在分析结构，数据呈现，理论框架上都有了不小调整。与组织社会学理论的对话也更明确：强调选择-适应二分法互补的冲突与转换的可能，又进一步补充新制度主义下宏观与趋同理论的局限。论文里的"underdog"在书里被改成opportunist，概念转化…

因为和我感兴趣的领域接近所以很期待的一本。没有让人失望。比论文更上一层楼。基本框架是双重模糊性背景下关于机会主义和制度变迁──后者在论文里只有一篇引文罢了，而书里有了一个完善的框架（27页）。机会主义者在制度不完善的模糊地带攻城掠地，但往往在后续制度化的过程里很不适应新游戏规则，唯一的例外是新东方（点解？）。这一过程有三个大环境因素（30页）。同时对话了［新］制度主义和制度演化学者（适应还是选择？…

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