Wherever you are in the world, a middle manager’s working life is seldom free from office politics. But nowhere is dealing with political power more of an issue than in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Communist Party influence and scrutiny pervades these firms, cascading down through virtually all management levels via Party branches that SOEs are required to install wherever they do business. Apparatchiks double as full-time employees of the firm.
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