000K utf8 0100 1938948866 1100 2025$c2025-10-21 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:gbv:547-202501018 3000 Cheng, Jing 4000 Institutions and Governance in Urbanizing China$dThe Case of Shareholding Cooperative Companies in Shenzhen$hUniversität Erfurt [Cheng, Jing] 4030 Erfurt$nUniversität Erfurt 4060 242 Seiten 4209 Amid China’s rapid urbanization, the entanglement of formal and informal institutions has generated hybrid governance arrangements that challenge conventional, state-centered understandings. In this context, Shareholding Cooperative Companies (SCCs), which emerged from the disintegration of traditional rural social structures and the rapid escalation of land values, represent a typical institutional response to tensions arising from rural-to-urban transformation. As hybrid institutional actors, SCCs combine economic and governance functions: while formally incorporated as collective economic entities for land transfers, income distribution, and investment, they also informally assume grassroots governance responsibilities. Rather than remnants of rural collectivism, SCCs have evolved into dynamic agents that negotiate, adapt, and locally embed governance within a transforming institutional landscape. This dissertation addresses the core question of how formal and informal institutions interact to shape SCCs’ governance at different levels, and how SCCs, as collective economic organizations, participate in reshaping these institutional processes. Drawing on institutional perspective and governance studies, it develops an analytical framework that conceptualizes governance as institutional practice and employs a qualitative approach based on in-depth interviews and case analysis across three interconnected domains: internal corporate governance, urban village governance, and informal real estate market governance. Empirical findings reveal that SCCs do not simply apply pre-existing formal templates but actively reconstruct governance logics within evolving institutional environments. Internally, formal structures such as shareholder meetings and supervisory boards are reinterpreted through lineage-based authority and localized legitimacy. In urban village governance, SCCs mobilize social capital and collaborate with local authorities, forming adaptive coordination between informal capacities and formal mandates. In the informal real estate market, SCCs leverage collective control and informal contractual mechanisms to mediate between state regulation and grassroots housing demands. Through these practices, SCCs transform institutional ambiguity into a source of resilience and negotiated stability. By integrating Weberian insights with grounded empirical analysis, the dissertation redefines institutional ambiguity not as a deficit but as a condition of adaptive governance in transitional China. It argues that governance stability emerges through pragmatic coordination, historical embedding, and negotiated legitimacy, revealing how formal and informal institutions co-evolve in practice to sustain institutional resilience amid urban transformation. 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:547-202501018$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 http://uri.gbv.de/document/gvk:ppn:1938948866 5051 300 5550 China 5550 formal institutions 5550 Governance 5550 informal institutions 5550 Lineage 5550 Shareholding Cooperative Companies (SCCs)