企业文化以70年代日本企业的生产率大大超过美国,并夺走了大量原属美国企业占领的市场为契机,开始受到企业界和理论界的普遍关注。企业文化作为一种全新的管理科学理论形成于80年代,其标志:一是人们已自觉意识到世界上大批优秀企业(不只是日本的优秀企业)成功的主要原因是因为有优秀的企业文化;二是企业管理领域的专家学者广泛深入地探讨企业文化问题,并有一批企业文化理论著作问世,其中不少成为畅销书。国外企业文化的兴起正值中国城市经济体制改革提出并逐渐展开之时。这时人们已普遍意识到我 Corporate Culture Taking the productivity of Japanese companies far surpassing that of the United States in the 1970s and taking away a large number of markets formerly occupied by American enterprises, they have begun to attract the widespread attention of enterprises and theorists. Corporate culture, as a new theory of management science, was formed in the 1980s with the following hallmarks: First, people have consciously realized that the main reason for the success of a large number of outstanding enterprises in the world (not just Japanese outstanding enterprises) is their excellent corporate culture; Second, experts and scholars in the fields of enterprise management have extensively discussed corporate culture issues and published a number of corporate culture theoretical works, many of which have become best-seller books. The rise of foreign corporate culture came at a time when China’s urban economic system reform was proposed and gradually started. People are now generally aware of me