State Management and Malign Growth

In China targets must be met, by any means necessary. –Yuen Yuen Ang This essay is both a reminiscence and a look forward. The reminiscence will be brief though I will return to it at the end. The forward look raises some larger issues related to state ownership and management. These are of possible interest to scholars, especially those contributing to Management and Organization Review whose aspiration is ‘to develop knowledge that is unique to China as well as universal knowledge that may transcend China’ (IACMR, undated).