Scholars@Duke
Bai Gao

Bai Gao

Professor of Sociology
Sociology
bai.gao@duke.edu
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
7131, 2200 West Main Street (Suit 700), Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Structure and agency: Examining Shenzhen Polytechnic University's skill formation system reform through an institutional lens

Journal article Vocation Technology and Education · January 1, 2026 Shenzhen Polytechnic University (SZPU) has developed a distinctive skill formation system centered on the principle of "developing first-class programs in collaboration with top-tier companies". A systematic analysis of the characteristics and developmenta ... Full text Cite

The Renaissance of Industrial Policy: Developmentalism in the Era of Post Globalization

Journal article İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi / İstanbul University Journal of Sociology · December 31, 2020 Full text Cite

The social construction of competitive advantage

Journal article China an International Journal · February 1, 2016 Cite

INTRODUCTION The Social Construction of Competitive Advantage

Journal article CHINA-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL · February 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

“Globalization and the Origins of Japanese Developmentalism"

Journal article Comparativ – Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung. · 2010 Cite

The Rubik's Cube state: A reconceptualization of political change in contemporary China

Journal article Research in the Sociology of Work · December 1, 2009 Full text Cite

The origins of nonliberal capitalism: Germany and Japan in comparison.

Journal article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · September 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

The Capital Distribution in Post Japan: Industrial Policy and Private Banks

Journal article Social Science Journal of Japan · 2003 Cite

The Japanese Economic System and Its Historical Origins

Journal article Journal of Japanese Studies · 2002 Full text Cite

The state and the associational order of the economy: The institutionalization of cartels and trade associations in 1931-45 Japan

Journal article Sociological Forum · September 1, 2001 The existing literature on the impact of the state on the associational order has emphasized the state's concern on the implications of the associational order to the public goods and the role of the associational order as a policy tool of the state. Howev ... Full text Cite

Globalization and ideology: The competing images of the contemporary Japanese economic system in the 1990s

Journal article International Sociology · January 1, 2000 The convergence argument in the debate on globalization regards globalization as a structural change. Globalization, however, is as much a structural change as a social construction - an imagined order of the future that involves value judgment and an ideo ... Full text Cite

"Efficiency, Culture or Politics: the Institutionalization of Japanese Management."

Journal article a special issue of The Sociological Review, titled The Laws of the Market · 1998 Cite

The search for national identity and Japanese industrial policy, 1950-1969

Journal article Nations and Nationalism · January 1, 1998 Economic nationalism reflected in Japanese industrial policy experienced two distinctive stages during 1950-69. It was fragmented in the 1950s as political actors held competing perceptions of national interest and consequently asserted contesting strategi ... Full text Cite

"Three Paradigms in Modern Japanese Industrial Policy" (in Chinese).

Journal article The Chinese Social Science Quarterly · 1995 Cite

Arisawa Hiromi and His Theory for a Managed Economy

Journal article Journal of Japanese Studies · 1994 Full text Cite