Description
Book SynopsisAn 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 C
Trade Review"Much rhetoric on institutional changes in China portrays a top-down, rational process. Situated in China’s supplemental education sector,
The Fruits of Opportunism is one of the best studies that explicate the multifaceted processes and subtle dynamics involved in the transformation of post-Mao China. Theoretically informed and empirically grounded, Le Lin’s book makes a convincing case for the role of opportunism in market formation and institutional changes." -- Xueguang Zhou, Stanford University
"More than a study of China’s massive supplemental education industry,
The Fruits of Opportunism shows what types of organizations succeed in the public-private ambiguity that marks Chinese enterprise. This groundbreaking book is theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich." -- Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan
Table of ContentsList 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
