Bulletin Number Three 1984

Conference on Chinese-Style Enterprise Management A Conference on ‘Chinese-Style Enterprise Management', organized by the Faculty of Business Administration, was held at the Cho Yiu Hall of the University from 19th to 23rd June, 1984. Chaired by Professor K.C. Mun, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, the Conference was attended by about fifty participants. Besides local participants from this University and the University of Hong Kong, scholars from Mainland China, Taiwan and the United States were invited, including Professor Jiang Yi Wei, Deputy President of the China Industrial Economics Association and Standing Member of the China Business Management Association, Professor Kuo Kun Mo of the Department of Business Administration, National Chung Hsing University, Professor Ezra F. Vogel of the Department of Sociology, Harvard University, and Professor Joseph Lee of the Department of Economics, Mankato State University. Officiating at the opening ceremony of the Conference was the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Ma L i n , who pointed out in his address, 'Most conference on enterprise management in the past concentrated on Western-style enterprise management. Although enterprise management has its general principles and techniques, it is inevitably influenced by the local political and economic system and culture.... It would be meaningful to study the feasibility of transplanting Western-style management to the East and Eastern- style management to the West.' Altogether twenty-three papers were presented at the Conference and they were centred around the following topics: (1) The characteristics of Chinese-style enterprise management (2) The operational environment and style of enterprises in China (3) Confucianism and enterprise management by Chinese (including overseas Chinese) (4) Topical studies on enterprise management by Chinese in Hong Kong, Taiwan and South- East Asia (5) The current reform and setting up of the enterprise management system in China and other case studies. This Conference has made possible the free exchange of ideas and research results and participants were already looking forward to their meeting again in the near future. News in Brief Council Membership * The following persons have been re-elected by the Unofficial Members of the Legislative Council to be members of the University Council, each for a term of three years, upon the expiry of their present terms of office: The Hon. S.L. Chen (30th June, 1984) Dr. the Hon. Harry Fang (17th October, 1984) The Hon. Maria Tam (17th October, 1984) * The following persons have been re-elected by the Council to be members of the Council, each for a term of three years, upon the expiry of their present terms of office: Dr. the Hon. Q.W. Lee (30th June, 1984) Dr. J.S. Lee (17th October, 1984) Professor Y.C. Wong (17th October, 1984) Dr. the Hon. Sir Kenneth Ping-fan Fung (14th January, 1985) UPGCNews * The following have been appointed by the Governor to be members of the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee (UPGC) until 31st March, 1987: Mr. P.C.S. Deveson, Chairman of Inchcape (Hong Kong) Ltd., and Miss Eleanor Wong, Managing Director of Hong Kong Knitters Ltd. Professor David Todd, Professor of Medicine, University of Hong Kong has been appointed to be a member of the UPGC Medical Sub-Committee. * UPGC's comments on the University's 1985-88 Academic Development Proposals were delivered in a letter from the UPGC Chairman to the Vice- Chancellor in April, the gist of which is given below. The UPGC noted that student numbers at the University are likely to total 7,000 by 1988 and, NEWS 3