儒家伦理与中国近代企业制度

Confucian Ethics and Modern Enterprise System in China

企业制度的主要目标在于节省交易成本,儒家伦理在中国近代企业制度和若干市场制度的形成和发展过程中起了潜移默化的作用。随着企业横向兼并、纵向合并和多元化投资的发展,中国若干规模较大的企业曾经进行过经理人层级制管理的尝试,但多以失败告终。其中家族企业的分家析产和对异姓的不信任阻碍了企业规模的持续扩大,而资本市场的不发达也是一个重要的客观条件。

The main goal of modern enterprise system is to save transaction cost as much as possible. Confucian ethics has been exerting a subtle influence on the course of modern Chinese enterprise system development. With the help of mergence and acquisition and multi-investment, some large Chinese enterprises have already experimented corporate governance but ended up with failures. There are many reasons for that, but the main ones are undeveloped capital market and traditional kindred enterprise model which constrains the enterprise size and its development.