【#香港研究推介】
英國倫敦大學亞非學院學者托賓(Damian Tobin)最近在《Journal of Contemporary Asia》發表了一篇期刊文章，以中國銀行香港分行為個案，分析中共如何在改革開放前(1949–78)，利用香港的金融中心地位為其服務。
文章引用檔案史料，指出中資銀行在香港運作時，並未受到中共反資本主義的意識形態束縛，而是以相當務實的態度參與巿場運作。而中國銀行香港分行既為中共帶來龐大外匯收入，亦是中共搜集情報、學習國際巿場運作、以至進行外交政治工作的重要平台。
革新保港，金融優勢。時至今天，香港的金融中心地位，仍然是香港與中共博弈的最重要籌碼。鑑古知今，要理解中港關係和香港前途，這篇文章不可不讀。
全文：http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2015.1123283
〈Continuity and Pragmatism: How Chinese State-Owned Banks Adapted to Hong Kong’s Free Market (1949–1978)〉
Abstact:
One of the puzzling features of China’s post-1978 economic reforms is how quickly its enterprises adapted to the new business environment. An insight into this puzzle is provided by Chinese state-owned banks in Hong Kong. From 1949–78 these banks, led by the Bank of China, represented China’s primary financial interface with the outside world. What distinguished the management of these banks from their peers was their loyalty to communist values. Yet, despite Mao Zedong’s anti-imperialist anti-capitalist ideology, the Bank of China demonstrated extraordinary business pragmatism in its engagement with the international financial system. It also exemplified a high level of management continuity which enabled it to see beyond a volatile and often hostile political environment. The article shows that the post-1978 retreat from ideology and its replacement with commercial incentives proved costly in terms of professional standards. A homogenization of bank management also made it more difficult to recruit senior management whose loyalty to the Communist Party could be assumed. These findings highlight the importance of rule variation in explaining international differences in management behaviour. More generally the article shows the long-term importance of Hong Kong’s role as an internationalising force for China’s business and financial sectors.
Keywords: Hong kong; banks; bank of china; ethics; international trade; renminbi internationalisation
#香港研究 #香港研究學院 #學術期刊 #金融中心 #金融優勢 #革新保港
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