Sun Gong, Li Jian
Business School, Changshu Institute of Technology, Suzhou, China.
School of Management, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 26;12:792707. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.792707. eCollection 2021.
The values are greatly affected by the social and economic environment of a country. Thus, social transformation can lead to the values evolution. China has been experiencing a huge social, political, and economic transition in the past four decades. The previous studies that explore the value changes in China mainly compare the values across the regions or generation cohorts. This research investigates the issue from an institutional perspective. Specifically, we propose that the diversification of ownership types-the essence of the economic and institutional reform since 1978 may result in value change. By surveying 327 participants from the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and 220 respondents from the privately owned enterprises (POEs), the comparisons between SOEs and POEs on four value dimensions-individualism, power distance, risk aversion, and money orientation-were performed. The results basically support cross-vergence theory in the values evolution. The implications and limitations are presented as well.
这些价值观受到一个国家社会和经济环境的极大影响。因此，社会变革会导致价值观的演变。在过去四十年里，中国经历了巨大的社会、政治和经济转型。以往探讨中国价值观变化的研究主要是比较不同地区或代际群体的价值观。本研究从制度视角来调查这一问题。具体而言，我们提出所有制类型的多样化——1978年以来经济和制度改革的核心——可能会导致价值观的变化。通过对327名国有企业参与者和220名民营企业受访者进行调查，我们对国有企业和民营企业在个人主义、权力距离、风险规避和金钱取向这四个价值观维度上进行了比较。研究结果基本支持了价值观演变中的交叉趋同理论。同时也阐述了研究的意义和局限性。
