基于诺思制度变迁框架的中国近代企业史研究——以荣家企业制度变迁为例

On Modern Firm History in China Based on North's Institutional Transition Framework: Taking Institutional Transition of Rong Family Firm as an Example

从20世纪90年代起,中国经济史学研究引入了新制度经济学理论,这是传统经济史学研究方法上的突破。但这些研究大多集中于正式制度对近代企业的影响和运用交易成本或产权理论分析近代企业制度变迁。文章在诺思产权—国家—意识形态的制度变迁理论框架的基础上,以企业代替国家为制度变迁的主体,重点从意识形态视角进行研究,并通过对荣家企业的案例分析,为近代企业史研究提供了一个内在逻辑一致的理论框架。

Neo-institutional economic theory was introduced into Chinese economic historiography in the 1990s, which was a breakthrough in traditional economic historiography from the angle of methodology. But most of relevant studies focus on the impacts of formal institutions on modern firms or employ transaction costs and ownership theory to analyze the institutional transition of modern firms. Based on the framework of North＇s institutional transition theory, whose corner-stone are ownership, state and ideology, this paper regards enterprises as the participant in institutional transition instead of the state and takes Rong family firm as an example from the angle of ideology, thus providing a theoretical framework with internal logic consistency for the study of modern firm history.