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When Deng Xiaoping unveiled his vision of economic reform to the Third Plenum of the 11th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in December 1978, the Chinese economy was [...]

A study was conducted to examine the reasons corporate houses resort to philanthropy and the organizations that are recipients of this patronage. Results revealed that the corporate houses resorted to donating to schools to gain tax benefits and the type of schools also is a decisive factor for receipt of aid.

Lawrence Peter King. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000. 168 pp. $59.50. It has been more than a decade since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and even longer that these [...]

We analyze the dynamic interaction of state institutions and organizational policies through an analysis of leave benefits in U.S. organizations. Following the Pregnancy Leave Act of 1978 and the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, organizations have been required by law to allow workers to take time off from work for childbearing and childbearing. Yet organizations vary on whether they offer full-time employees benefits that actually facilitate leave for family responsibilities. We analyze the determinants of the organizational decision to offer paid maternity leave to full-time employees. We compare these findings to the determinants of the organizational decision to offer paid sick leave to full-time employees. Our analysis suggests that organizations have taken an activist approach to their institutional environments: In the face of federal definitions of the law that mandated gender-neutral policies in the workplace and linked pregnancy to disability, those organizations that most often deal with maternity issues (e.g., those located in female-dominated industries) have institutionalized sick leave policies (often instead of maternity leave) to accommodate pregnant employees. The analysis examines specific aspects of the institutional environment at the state and federal levels to illuminate these trends.

THE AGREEMENT late last year between the United States and China paving the way for China's entry into the World Trade Organization is a necessary and positive step toward continued [...]