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What sort of industrial relations can be found in the Third Line Enterprises? To answer this question, this chapter makes a review of existing literature on Chinese state-owned enterprises’ (SOEs) management and further presents the theoretical framework of this book. In this chapter, the author argues that while facing workers’ rule-breaking behaviors, group leaders of the Third Line Enterprises do not usually punish them or report them to their senior managers. Instead, they are inclined to exhibit tolerance. The author also indicates that the group leaders’ toleration is an adaptive strategy cultivated by the factory’s densely interconnected social networks and the workers’ control on production lines in isolated areas.
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The First Line refers to the border land and the coastal area, the Second Line is the area between the First Line and the Third Line. The Big Third Line refers to the investment and construction in the central and western provinces, while the Small Third Line refers to the investment and construction in the central and western areas within the provinces of the First and the Second Line.
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These tactics suggest that the slack resource is necessary for exchange. Indeed, many scholars have already studied this phenomenon. However, the purpose here is not to show the author’s originality on this phenomenon but to present that in what forms this phenomenon existed in the Third Line Enterprises . More importantly, this is an indispensable content in this study illustrating how the tripartite exchange could be sustained. As for studies relevant to the role of slack resource in the Chinese factory’s management, see, for example, Lin 2011; Walder 1987. For the role of slack resource in other countries, see, for example, Lupton 1963; Pravda 1979.
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Chen, C. (2018). Introduction. In: Toleration. New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8941-1_1
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