Title: A visible hand: government as the change agent in the transformation of management education in China

Authors: Wei He, Xiaoyun Wang, Kaicheng Yu

Addresses: College of Business, Indiana State University, 800 Sycamore Street, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA. ' I.H. Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, 181 Freedman Crescent, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 5V4, Canada. ' School of Management, Dalian University of Technology, 2 Lingong Road, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China

Abstract: Management education in China has undergone a dramatic passage of falling and rising over the past half century. This paper first reviews the synchronous development of economy and management education in China since 1949. Then, it analyses, on the basis of a market model, how the government as the change agent has influenced both the firms| demand for and the higher education institutions| supply of management education and the interaction between this pair of |demander| and |supplier|. Finally, it discusses the roles and implications of several new |players| in the marketplace of management education in China for its future development.

Keywords: management education; China; government; change agents.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2007.014374

International Journal of Management in Education, 2007 Vol.1 No.1/2, pp.5 - 20

Published online: 03 Jul 2007 *

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