| INFORMATION ASYMMETRY AND MANAGEMENT CONTROL ISSUES IN A SINO-FRENCH IJV IN CHINA MALCOLM H. CONE & ANDRE M. EVERETT Issue 25 (Vol. 13 No. 1) pp. 107-122 This paper analyzes differences in the management control practices of Chinese and French managers in a joint venture between a Chinese state owned enterprise and a French commercial organization. The research is based on sixty interviews conducted with Chinese and French managers. We utilize the theory of autonomous fields (Bourdieu), complexity models (Boisot and Child), and information economics (Stiglitz) to analyze the ways in which management control as exercised by the Chinese and French managers differs in a variety of contexts within the organization: (1) choosing options to predict demand, (2) collecting information for planning purposes, and (3) using competition as a means of controlling costs. |